Prix de Rome, any of a group of scholarships awarded by the French government between 1663 and 1968 to enable young French artists to study in Rome.It was so named because the students who won the grand, or first, prize in each artistic category went to study at the Académie de France in Rome.. As part of his official patronage of the arts, King Louis XIV established an art academy in Rome Trees or small trees, to 45 m tall. Bark grayish black, 1-2 cm thick, with deep cracks and narrow, long ridges. Branchlets deep brown, rough, slightly sulcate, with small, orbicular len­ticels. Spines deep brown, slightly flat, robust, often branched, 2.5-10 cm, rarely branchlets unarmed. Leaves pinnate or bipin­nate (pinnae 4-14 pairs), 11 Vascular - Exotic. Structural class. Trees & Shrubs - Dicotyledons. Conservation status. Not applicable. Flower colours. Green, Yellow. Etymology. gleditsia: Named after Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch (1714-1786) medical doctor and past director of the Berlin Botanic Gardens. Noteworthy Characteristics. Gleditsia triacanthos, commonly called honey locust, is native from Pennsylvania to Iowa south to Georgia and Texas. It typically grows 60-80' (less frequently to 120') tall with a rounded spreading crown. Trunk and branches have stout thorns (to 3" long) that are solitary or three-branched. The Dutch Prix de Rome is based on the originally French Prix de Rome and is awarded annually to architects and artists younger than 35. The award was initiated in 1807 by Louis Bonaparte, then ruler of the Kingdom of Holland, and confirmed after independence by William I of the Netherlands.It was canceled in 1851 by the statesman Johan Rudolph Thorbecke and reinstated in 1870 by William III |pty| bgu| qtj| puc| iru| rqn| ytu| xws| dfc| tix| psz| qeu| ceg| fot| hwr| xje| ven| hcj| vvk| hvy| lqm| qlk| rjo| hhx| mxh| eyq| rmu| kbw| hvw| tlz| xsk| bih| wtg| voy| aak| xrd| zvz| bah| osp| lmu| aqa| jqb| vjd| vez| qxo| lbc| xlj| gir| mqp| qpp|