Antonio Canova was born in Possagno, the great neoclassical sculptor: the most important evidence of his art (sculptures, reliefs, sketches, paintings ...) can be found today in the birthplace and in the nearby Gypsotheca where Canova's brother, Giovanni Battista Sartori, wanted to transfer, since 1829, all the plaster models that were in the Roman studio at the artist's death.
The Museum of Possagno, one of the first museums in the Veneto, provides the complete image of the art and life of Antonio Canova : in addition to the chalks (which are the original statues, of which the marbles scattered around the world are replicas), oil and tempera paintings, drawings, memories, clothes, work tools, books are kept...
All this, within precious architectures that provide the most valid context to appreciate Canova's great artistic production: from the eighteenth-century house, built according to the skill of the local stonemasons and stonecutters, to the nineteenth-century Gypsotheca by Francesco Lazzari; from the twentieth-century extensions by Carlo Scarpa and Luciano Gemin to the grandiose Temple, designed by Canova himself as the village church, a few meters from his home. It is not only, therefore, a collection of statues: the Antonio Canova Museum in Possagno is the "Canovian complex", consisting of museums, archives, libraries, study center, collaborations...
And it is a lively and innovative place for spreading Canovian knowledge thanks to workshops, reinterpretations, guides, itineraries, virtual tours, publications, etc. able to educate and transmit culture.
Antonio Canova Museum
Address: Via Canova, 74, 31054, Treviso
Phone: 0423 544323
Site:
https://www.museocanova.it/Location inserted by
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