" But what is going on at the Villa Medici? »Questions Cristina Battocletti, responsible for the culture section of the Sunday edition of Il Sole 24 Ora . It was not necessarily frowned upon that the Élysée take its time. But in Rome, we do not understand that the vacancy drags on, even if no one talks about it in dinners in town. It is rather in cultural circles that we wonder about this unprecedented interlude.
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Because the Romans are very attached to the Villa Medici, starting with the place, its umbrella pines and its exceptional view of the setting sun over Rome. " These places kept away from the chaos of the city are Parnassus, places of a suspended and enchanted life, so favorable to meditation" , says the artist Marco Tirelli who grew up in the walls of the Swiss Academy, close to the Villa. A place which, he says, " was very important in my vocation ". But in their eyes, the Académie de France has lost its luster, and is slowly dying out.
A gradual extinction which
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