Rome Prize
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The Rome Prize is a prestigious American award made annually, through a national competition, to 15 emerging artists (working in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Design, Historic Preservation and Conservation, Literature, Musical Composition, or Visual Arts) and to 15 scholars (working in Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and early Modern, or Modern Italian Studies).
Rome Prize winners go to the American Academy, situated on the Janiculum, Rome's highest hill. The American Academy in Rome was established in 1894 and chartered by an Act of the United States Congress in 1905.
The ideal of community is fundamental to the American Academy. Fellowship winners come to Rome to refine and expand their own professional, artistic or scholarly aptitudes, drawing on their colleagues' erudition and experience, as well as on the resources of Rome, Europe and the Mediterranean.
The Academy offers the opportunity to examine firsthand the source of Western humanistic heritage, and to engage in a dialogue with Rome's culture. Time spent at the Academy -- stimulated in part by varied walks, talks, tours and trips, a stream of distinguished international visitors and spontaneous table talk -- allows residents to enter into informed discourse with this past and to draw upon it for their individual explorations.
The Academy's main building contains most of the studios, studies and residences of the Rome Prize winners, the Library, dining facilities and administrative offices, as well as exhibition galleries, communal spaces, a dark room and archaeology facilities. The Academy facilities also include extensive gardens and additional buildings.
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- American Academy in Rome, official website with photograph of the Academy
