Memorie Canoviane

On the occasion of the bicentenary celebrations of the death of Antonio Canova (1822-2022), the Pinacoteca Manfrediniana pays homage to the great neoclassical sculptor born in Possagno in 1757. There is numerous evidence of a close relationship between Antonio Canova, the professors and students of the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and the Patriarchal Seminary. Some of these testimonies have been kept by personalities of undoubted value, such as Giannantonio Moschini (1773-1840) who lived in the building built by Longhena next to the Basilica della Salute. The exhibition investigates a part of these Canova memories concerning the famous sculptor, his friends and the neoclassical taste of the time. Works on display by: Antonio Bosa, Rinaldo Rinaldi, Gaetano Ferrari, Giuseppe de Fabris, Luigi Zandomeneghi, Francesco Puttinati, Giuseppe Borsato, Giovanni Battista Cecchini, Eugenio Bosa, Giuseppe Dala, Pietro Fontana, Raffaello Morghen, Giovanni Volpato, Marianna Pascoli Angeli, Pietro Benvenuti, Antonio Canoppi, Anton Raphael Mengs