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French Academy in Rome
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The French Academy in Rome is an academy located in the Villa Medici, within the Villa Borghese, on the Pincio in Rome, Italy.
The French Academy in Rome has been housed in the Villa Medici since 1804.
The French Academy in Rome has been housed in the Villa Medici since 1804.
The French Academy seen from the Piazza Trinità dei Monti above the Spanish Steps.
The French Academy seen from the Piazza Trinità dei Monti above the Spanish Steps.
Portrait of Prix de Rome winner and fellow student Merry-Joseph Blondel in front of the Villa Medici in 1809, by Ingres.
Portrait of Prix de Rome winner and fellow student Merry-Joseph Blondel in front of the Villa Medici in 1809, by Ingres.
Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, visiting the French Academy in Rome.
Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, visiting the French Academy in Rome.
Villa Medici
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The Villa Medici is a Mannerist villa and an architectural complex with a garden contiguous with the larger Borghese gardens, on the Pincian Hill next to Trinità dei Monti in Rome, Italy. The Villa Medici, founded by Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and now property of the French State, has housed the French Academy in Rome since 1803. A musical evocation of its garden fountains features in Ottorino Respighi's Fountains of Rome.
Villa Medici in Rome
Villa Medici in Rome
Villa Medici seen from the Piazza Trinità dei Monti above the Spanish Steps.
Villa Medici seen from the Piazza Trinità dei Monti above the Spanish Steps.
The fountain in 2002.
The fountain in 2002.
Portrait by Ingres of fellow student Merry-Joseph Blondel in front of the Villa in 1809.
Portrait by Ingres of fellow student Merry-Joseph Blondel in front of the Villa in 1809.