The American Academy in Rome presents the awards to honor “the highest standard of excellence in the arts and humanities.”
AMHERST - Max Page, professor of art and history at the University of Massachusetts, was one of three scholars who to receive the Rome Prize for Historic Preservation and Conservation.
The American Academy in Rome presents the awards to honor “the highest standard of excellence in the arts and humanities.”
Past winners include architects Robert Venturi and Louis Kahn, composers Aaron Copland and Laurie Anderson and writers Ralph Ellison and William Styron.
The prize includes a fellowship that provides a stipend, studio or study, room and board in Rome for up to two years—and the opportunity for recipients to expand their own professional, artistic or scholarly pursuits, according to a press release.
Page plans to spend the spring semester of 2014 in Italy.