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Rome, Prix de

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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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