Ingres, the sculptors Pierre-Jean David d’Angers and Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, the architect Tony Garnier, and the composers Hector Berlioz, Charles Gounod, Georges Bizet, and Claude Debussy. In the 19th century prizes for engravers and musicians were added the most famous prizewinners of that century were the painter J.-A.-D. Many of the greatest French artists and architects of the 18th century went to Rome as prizewinners, including the painters Antoine Coypel, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and Jacques-Louis David and the sculptors François Girardon, Clodion, and Jean-Antoine Houdon.ĭuring the French Revolution the Académie de France was closed from 1792 until 1801, when it reopened in the magnificent Villa Medici building. Prizes for architecture were awarded regularly after about 1720. The original prizes were awarded to students of painting and sculpture. In 1666 French statutes decreed that the newly established Grand Prix de Rome should preferably be awarded to prizewinning pupils from the Royal Academy. This move was prompted by Charles Le Brun, who had previously been instrumental in founding France’s Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture ( Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture) in Paris in 1648. It was so named because the students who won the grand, or first, prize in each artistic category went to study at the Académie de France in Rome.Īs part of his official patronage of the arts, King Louis XIV established an art academy in Rome called the Académie de France.

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