The project of the Belgian Academy in Rome was born in 1930, on the occasion of the marriage of Princess Marie-José to Prince Umberto of Savoy. Many nations, with the support of the Italian government, were already represented in Rome through a scientific and cultural institution. Belgium saw all the importance of an intellectual and artistic embassy in Italy, which was intended on the one hand to encourage relations between Italy and Belgium, on the other to offer hospitality to Belgian researchers and artists who came to Rome. The Belgian Academy would have welcomed, at the same time, the Belgian Historical Institute of Rome (ISBR), founded in 1902, and the newly created Princess Marie-José National Foundation (FPMJ).
The Belgian Academy was inaugurated in 1939 in its current location, the work of architects Gino Cipriani and Jean Hendrickx, in an elegant area on the edge of the park of Villa Borghese, which already housed the Dutch, Romanian and, later, the Egyptian institutes , Danish and Swedish. From the outset she allowed, in concert with ISBR and the FPMJ, many generations of artists and scholars to perfect their training in Rome and to contribute, through numerous publications, to the progress of the arts and sciences historical and philological. Thanks to its directors, the Academy has also taken part in archaeological research, through the excavations conducted in Alba Fucens, in Abruzzo, and Ordona in Puglia.
Belgian Academy in Rome
Address: Via Omero, 8, 00196
Phone: 06 2039 8631
Site:
http://www.academiabelgica.it/Location inserted by
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