ROME, ITALY—The American Academy in Rome has named the winners of its 2019–20 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships, which support advanced independent work and research in the arts and humanities. The awardees were honored at a ceremony that took place in the Great Hall at Cooper Union in New York on April 9.
This year, Rome Prizes were awarded to thirty American and six Italian artists and scholars, who will each receive a stipend, workspace, and room and board for a period of five to eleven months at the academy’s eleven-acre campus in Rome. Nearly one thousand applications for the fellowships were received. The eleven disciplines supported by the academy are: Literature, Music Composition, Visual Arts, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Design, and Historic Preservation and Conservation, Ancient Studies, Medieval Studies, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, and Modern Italian Studies.
The institution also revealed that two new fellowships were established: the Philip Guston Rome Prize in Visual Arts, which was established by Musa and Thomas Mayer in memory of the artist Philip Guston, and the Adele Chatfield-Taylor Rome Prize in Historic Preservation, which was created in honor of Chatfield-Taylor’s legacy.
In addition to the Rome Prize winners, the academy announced the recipients of six Italian Fellowships, through which Italian artists and scholars are invited to work on their own projects on the academy’s campus and to collaborate with this year’s Rome Prize winners.
The full list of the 2019–20 Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows is as follows:
ANCIENT STUDIES
Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Rome Prize:
Daniel P. Diffendale
Arthur Ross Rome Prize:
Brian McPhee
Samuel H. Kress Foundation/Helen M. Woodruff-Archaeological Institute of America Rome Prize:
Victoria C. Moses
Emeline Hill Richardson/Millicent Mercer Johnsen Rome Prize:
Jeremy A. Simmons
Andrew Heiskell/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize:
Christopher van den Berg
Samuel H. Kress Foundation Rome Prize:
Parrish Elizabeth Wright
ARCHITECTURE
Christine Gorby
Gordon Rome Prize:
Michael Young
DESIGN
Rolland Rome Prize:
Marsha Ginsberg
Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize:
Roberto Lugo
HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION
Booth Family Rome Prize:
Matthew Brennan
Adele Chatfield-Taylor Rome Prize:
Ashley J. Hahn
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Prince Charitable Trusts/Kate Lancaster Brewer Rome Prize:
Brian Davis
Garden Club of America Rome Prize:
Kate Thomas
LITERATURE
Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize:
Samiya Bashir
John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize:
Nicole Sealey
MEDIEVAL STUDIES
Marian and Andrew Heiskell Rome Prize:
Joel Pattison
Donald and Maria Cox/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Rome Prize:
Alexis Wang
MODERN ITALIAN STUDIES
Fiori Berhane
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/National Endowment for the Humanities Rome Prize:
Angelo Caglioti
MUSICAL COMPOSITION
Samuel Barber Rome Prize:
Courtney Bryan
Walter Damrosch Rome Prize:
Pamela Z
RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES
National Endowment for the Humanities Rome Prize:
Evan A. MacCarthy
Paul Mellon/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize
Alana Mailes
Corey Tazzara
VISUAL ARTS
Philip Guston Rome Prize:
Garrett Bradley
David Brooks
Abigail Cohen Rome Prize:
James Casebere
Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize:
Sarah Crowner
Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize:
John Jesurun
ITALIAN FELLOWS
Marcello Lotti Italian Fellow in Music:
Zeno Baldi
Fondazione Sviluppo e Crescita CRT Italian Fellow in Visual Arts:
Corinna Gosmaro
Tiffany & Co. Italian Fellow in Design:
Eugenia Morpurgo
Franco Zeffirelli Italian Fellow in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies:
Giuliana Mosca
Franco Zeffirelli Italian Fellow in Ancient Studies:
Federica Nicolardi
ENEL Foundation Italian Fellow in Architecture, Urban Design, and Landscape Architecture:
Giovanna Silva
