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Rome, Prix de

The highest award given to pupils of the French Academy of Fine Arts. Instituted 1666 by the arts minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert, it allowed students to spend four years in Rome. For over two centuries it was considered the highest accolade a French artist could win.
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He never achieved the Prix de Rome but was made an Academician by election, without a preliminary trial in Rome; a higher honour, although Watteau had longed for the sojourn in the ease of a warm climate and the chance to widen the limited range of his pictures.
Watteau in London and Paris by Bruce, Donald / Contemporary Review
She focuses on their musical achievements rather than their lives and discusses their early compositional development, entries in the Prix de Rome, issues of gender, their impact, and Nadia's reputation.
Nadia and Lili Boulanger by Reference & Research Book News
Upon winning the Prix de Rome for Lie Down in Darkness, Styron received military training in North Carolina during the Korean War and spent an extended time in Europe.
William Styron (1925-2006) by Bookmarks
 
 
 
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