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Founded in 1666, the French Academy in Rome has played a decisive role ever since on the Roman and European cultural scenes.
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The villa has one of the largest decorative arts libraries in Rome, created in 1803 on the initiative of Joseph-Benoît Suvée, director of the Academy from 1795 to 1807. The collection consists of approximately 37,000 volumes in the French language, dedicated to the plastic arts, architecture and art history, which is the most relevant nucleus ...
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.
The Villa Medici, founded by Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and now property of the French State, [citation needed] has housed the French Academy in Rome since 1803. A musical evocation of its garden fountains features in Ottorino Respighi's Fountains of Rome.
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Villa Medici is open from Monday to Sunday from 10am to 6:30pm (closed on Tuesday). Opening hours during the holidays: Villa Medici will be closed on December 25th. About visit We inform clients that the historic spaces of Villa Medici are only accessible by guided tour. It is possible to visit the exhibition spacesby yourself. → TICKET PURCHASE
Accademia di Francia a Roma – Villa Medici Viale della Trinità dei Monti, 1 00187 Rome, Italy The French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici is located on the Pincio hill, in the heart of Rome, next to the famous Spanish Steps. It is surrounded on the one hand by the park of the Villa Borghese and on the other by the convent of the Trinità dei Monti.
No cloakroom available. No bar and restaurant service. The bookshop is accessible during Villa Medici’s opening hours. Villa Medici is only partially accessible to people with reduced mobility. Full access: gardens Partial access: exhibition rooms Historical rooms are not accessible.
Compulsory check with metal detector system at the entrance to Villa Medici. Cover picture ©Sebastiano Luciano
The Académie brings together the most famous French architects and creates, following the example of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, a Grand Prix for architecture, the winners of which are sent to Rome.
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The Villa Medici is an architectural complex located on the Pincio Hill, next to Trinità dei Monti, where once stood the gardens of the Roman general Lucius Lucinius Lucullus. One of the most interesting and important complexes of Rome from different points of view: history, architecture, and above all culture.
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