Prix de Rome

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French scholarship architecture scholarship art scholarship

The Prix de Rome was a prestigious French scholarship for artists and architects, granting winners state-funded study in Rome and serving as a major career springboard in the 17th–19th centuries.

Aliases (9)

Prix de Rome for architecture ×4
Prix de Rome for composition ×2
Grand Prix de Rome in painting ×1
Grand Prix de Rome in sculpture ×1
Prix de Rome (historical responsibility in fine arts) ×1
Prix de Rome (historically in arts and architecture) ×1
Prix de Rome en composition musicale ×1
Prix de Rome winners ×1
Rome Prize ×1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	French scholarship → architecture scholarship → art scholarship →
award	state-funded study in Rome →
competition type	annual competition →
country	France →
creator	Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture →
eligibility	students of the École des Beaux-Arts → young French artists →
end time	20th century →
field	architecture → engraving → music composition → painting → sculpture →
genre	academic art tradition →
has part	Grand Prix de Rome in architecture → Grand Prix de Rome in music → Grand Prix de Rome in painting → Grand Prix de Rome in sculpture →
host institution in Rome	French Academy in Rome →
inception	1663 →
influenced	careers of French academic artists →
influenced by	French royal patronage system →
language	French →
location	Paris →
location of study	Rome →
notable winner	Charles Gounod → Claude Debussy → Edgar Degas → Hector Berlioz → Jacques-Louis David → Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres → Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux → Paul Cézanne → Tony Garnier →
organizer	Académie des Beaux-Arts →
purpose	to identify and promote promising young artists → to support artistic training in Rome →
residence	Villa Medici →
selection method	artistic competition → jury selection →
significance	central institution of French academic art system → major career springboard for French artists →
significant period	17th century → 18th century → 19th century →
sponsor	French government → French monarchy → French state →

Referenced by (22)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Bernard Zehrfuss ("Prix de Rome for architecture") → Charles Garnier ("Prix de Rome for architecture") → Charles Gounod ("Prix de Rome for composition") → Claude Debussy → Hector Berlioz ("Prix de Rome for composition") → Jacques-Louis David → Jean-Antoine Houdon → Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres → Jean-Honoré Fragonard → Samuel Barber ("Rome Prize") → Victor Laloux ("Prix de Rome for architecture") →	awardReceived
Prix de Rome ("Grand Prix de Rome in painting") → Prix de Rome ("Grand Prix de Rome in sculpture") →	has part
Grand Prix de Rome in architecture → Grand Prix de Rome in music →	partOf
Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture →	awarded
Academic art →	awardedPrize
Académie des Beaux-Arts ("Prix de Rome (historical responsibility in fine arts)") →	awards
French Ministry of Culture ("Prix de Rome (historically in arts and architecture)") →	hasAward
French Academy in Rome ("Prix de Rome winners") →	notableAlumni
Honoré Daumet ("Prix de Rome for architecture") →	notableAward
Grand Prix de Rome in music ("Prix de Rome en composition musicale") →	originalName