Word: prix
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...roads that lead to Rome, none seems surer for artists than the one that passes through the Yale School of Fine Arts. In 1925 and 1926, Yale art students won in the Prix de Rome scholarship competitions conducted annually at the Grand Central Galleries, Manhattan. Last month two Yale graduate students won Prix de Rome scholarships, in painting and sculpture (TIME, May 16). Last week the Prix de Rome judges decided the 1927 competition in architecture and again the winner was a Yale student-Homer Fay Pfeiffer of Kansas City, Kan., graduate of the University of Illinois. For his design...
...Unmarried men, citizens of the U. S., not over 30 years old" may compete for four annual Prix de Rome scholarships.* One prize is for painting, one for sculpture, one for architecture, one for landscaping. The winners receive, $1,250 cash yearly for three years, plus free lodgings and studios at the American Academy in Rome, plus life membership? in the Grand Central Galleries, Manhattan...
...Founded by a group of architects and artists including Charles F. McKim, John La Farge, E. H. Blashfield, Daniel Chester French, in 1897, under the stimulus of the Chicago World's Fair. These Prix de Rome are not to be confused with the Grand Prix de Rome, an annual French Government award to only one painter, sculptor, engraver, architect or musician, instituted by Napoleon...
Thomas (1811-96) wrote Mignon in 1866. He, born at Metz, was a learned as well as smart composer. At 4, he knew his solfeggio; at 17, he was admitted to the Paris Conservatory of Music; at 21, he won the Conservatory's Prix de Rome, and went there at the French government's expense. Three years' study in Rome prepared him to compose a laudable requiem mass and several popular operas...
Paris in 1830. Berlioz had just won the Prix de Rome after repeated failures. He went to hear Liszt play Weber's Concertstück, at the finish publicly embracing Liszt. That night the two musicians entered a drawing room together where musical prejudices were being aired, where Weber's name suffered scorn. A young French cock intimated that it was not enough for the court of Louis XVIII that Weber had been kapellmeister at every petty court of Germany. Halvéy recalled the time in Prague when Weber, director of the opera, was a mine...