CONNECTING CULTURES
THROUGH MUSIC
By Kim Welsh
The French Academy in Rome was founded in 1666 by Louis XIV and served from the 17th to 19th centuries as the pinnacle of study for select French artists who , having won the prestigious Prix de Rome ( Rome Prize ), were honored with a scholarship in the Eternal City for the purpose
24 | The French Quarterly of the study of art and architecture . In 1803 , Napoleon Bonaparte moved it to the Villa Medici with the intention of providing young French artists the opportunity to see and copy the masterpieces of the Antiquity and the Renaissance and send back to Paris the results of the inspiration they had gained in Rome .