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‖ Prix de Rome|pri də rɔm|
[Fr., = prize of Rome.]
In full Grand Prix de Rome. One of a group of prizes awarded annually by the French Government, established by Louis XIV in 1666 for competition by young painters and sculptors, extended in 1720 to include architects, and in 1803 to include musicians and engravers. The winner of the first prize in each category is entitled to a period of study in Rome; also, the winner of a prix de Rome.
1879Grove Dict. Mus. I. 233/2 In 1828 he [sc. Berlioz] took the second, and at last, in 1830,..the first prize—the ‘Prix de Rome’. 1884R. & E. Holmes tr. Berlioz' Autobiogr. I. xxii. 113 The intention of the Government, in establishing the Prix de Rome, was, first, to bring forward year by year the most promising among the young French composers; secondly, to enable them, by means of a pension, to devote themselves entirely for five years to the study of music. 1889F. F. Buffen Musical Celebrities 53 At the age of nineteen Gounod succeeded in gaining the second ‘Prix de Rome’ for his cantata, ‘Marie Stuart et Rizzio’, and in 1839 took the ‘Grand Prix’ with his composition of ‘Fernand’. 1905J. Webster Wheat Princess i. 10 Allow me to present Monsieur Benoit, the last Prix de Rome—he is the man to paint your ghost. 1906W. J. Locke Beloved Vagabond (1907) xvi. 204 ‘You a Prix de Rome, Master?’ ‘Yes, my son, in Architecture.’ He was clothed in a new and sudden radiance. To a Paris art student a Prix de Rome is what a Field Marshal is to a private soldier. 1957Observer 29 Dec. 11/5 The Master had trained as an architect, won the Prix de Rome. 1968‘S. Jay’ Sleepers can Kill xv. 153 Oh, well, there goes the Prix de Rome. He put the charcoal down. 1972Guardian 22 July 9/6 John Skeaping..was living in Rome, having won the Prix de Rome for sculpture. |