Best wishes from the Fellows, Staff and Trustees of the American Academy in Rome.
Auguri dai Borsisti, dal Personale e dal Consiglio di amministrazione dell'American Academy in Rome.
This year the American Academy in Rome celebrates one hundred years as one intellectual and creative community with a permanent home atop the Janiculum.
In February 1911 the Trustees of the American Academy in Rome and the Managing Committee of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome voted to consolidate so that they could together more effectively advance the study, investigation and practice of the arts and humanities. Three months later, in May 1911, the Academy took possession of Villa Aurelia, the bequest of Clara Jessup Heyland, and set out to fulfill Mrs. Heyland’s wish that her home would become a center of American artistic and intellectual life in Rome.
This photograph from 1912 shows Villa Aurelia and the foundation of one of the sculpture studios at the Academy’s Main Building as the Academy begins its first century as a single institution committed to serving both artists and scholars. The Academy has more than realized the aspirations of the leaders who voted to merge, and the thoughtful—and ambitious—generosity of a lady from Philadelphia. In celebrating one hundred years the Academy renews its commitment to the arts and humanities, intellectual and artistic freedom, innovation and interdisciplinary and cultural exchange.
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