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The French Academy in Rome (French: Académie de France à Rome, pronounced [akademi də fʁɑ̃s a ʁɔm]) is an academy located in the Villa Medici, within the Villa Borghese, on the Pincio (Pincian Hill) in Rome, Italy.
Base d’Antin – Online collections of the French Academy in Rome. The database of the “Envois de Rome” in painting and sculpture, 1804-1914 – INHA. Biographical dictionary of the French Academy in Rome’s Fellows. Requests for filming and photography at Villa Medici.
The founding of the French Academy in Rome in 1666 as a branch of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris signaled the seminal importance of the classical tradition in the Academy’s program of art education.
Founded in 1666 by Louis XIV, the French Academy in Rome is a French establishment located, since 1803, in the Villa Medici, a 16th-century villa surrounded by a seventeen-acre park, on Mount Pincio, in the heart of Rome.
The Villa Medici, founded by Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and now property of the French State, [citation needed] has housed the French Academy in Rome since 1803. A musical evocation of its garden fountains features in Ottorino Respighi's Fountains of Rome.
French Academy Villa Medici. Located on the panoramic Pincio hill, the current building dates back to the mid-16th century. It was built to a design by the architect Giovanni Lippi, known as Nanni di Baccio Bigio, commissioned by Cardinal Giovanni Ricci da Montepulciano.
Villa Medici, also known as the French Academy in Rome (Académie de France à Rome in French), is a stunning mannerist palace that dates back to the Italian High Renaissance. The Palace of Villa Medici, which today hosts the French Academy in Rome, is located near Trinita’ dei Monti Church, on the Pincio Hill.
