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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.
Founded in 1666, the French Academy in Rome has played a decisive role ever since on the Roman and European cultural scenes. Find out more Sponsorship & private events
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.
→ GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY ON VILLA MEDICI AND THE FRENCH ACADEMY IN ROME . The creation of the French Academy in Rome was part of the policy of great work of King Louis XlV at the end of the 17th century. Those works transformed the Louvre, the Tuileries, and Versailles.
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.
In 1803, Napoleon Bonaparte moved the French Academy in Rome to the Villa Medici with the intention of preserving an institution once threatened by the French Revolution.
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.
