#possagno

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We visited Canova’s home town, Possagno and enjoyed his house museum as well as the very impressive temple that houses his tomb.

After Canova's death in 1822, his brother Giovanni Battista Sartori decided to move all the works that were kept in the studio where the artist worked in Rome to Possagno. Next to what had been Canova's birthplace he then created an exhibition space, or plaster cast gallery: a collection mainly of plaster casts to which clay sketches were added, while some drawings are exhibited today in the same birthplace transformed into a museum.

It was wonderful to see how he worked.

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I never realized before how many of these Canova sculptures are of Napoleon and his relatives

Without even having to zoom in I can see him, Alexandrine, Letizia, Elisa and one made for Josephine (idk if she was the model)

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Solemn and monumental, the Canovian Temple is the great neoclassical church of Possagno. It was designed by Canova as a grandiose circular building, recalling the Pantheon in Rome, with a gigantic Doric pronaos, like the Parthenon in Athens. The uphill entrance and the geometric decorations make it even more majestic. Inside are preserved the remains of Canova, a native of Possagno.

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Carlo Scarpa, exhibiton design of Museo Gypsotheca Antonio Canova in Possagno (Treviso), 1957

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Carlo Scarpa, Canova Museum and Cast Gallery, Possagno, Italy, 1955 - 1957 VS Eduardo Chillida, Moñtana Tindaya | Fuerteventura, Spain, 1994 (project)

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C. Scarpa x A. Canova. . . . #gypsoteca #antoniocanova #carloscarpa #sculpture #art #nature #architecture #artoninstagram #letregrazie #possagno #veneto #italy #mypic #picoftheday #instagram #yolo (presso Museo Gypsotheca Antonio Canova) https://www.instagram.com/p/CB9FmKEjewh/?igshid=u0fstthrczza

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                                     The Apotheosis of Classicism

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La Gypsotheca – Museo Canova