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Corinthian helmet
Flight to Egypt
Madonna and Child
Crucifix
Saint John the Baptist in the desert
Adoration of the shepherds with Saints Victor and Corona known as The Nativity of San Giuseppe
San Martino and the poor with Sant'Antonio Abate
Three Graces
Venus Italica
Penitent Magdalene
Five dancers holding crowns
Love and Psyche
Colossal Horse Head
Susanna and the Elders
Circumcision
Refectory of the observant Franciscan friars
Portrait of Francesco Roberti
The Stranger
Corinthian helmet
Flight to Egypt
Madonna and Child
Crucifix
Saint John the Baptist in the desert
Adoration of the shepherds with Saints Victor and Corona known as The Nativity of San Giuseppe
San Martino and the poor with Sant'Antonio Abate
Three Graces
Venus Italica
Penitent Magdalene
Five dancers holding crowns
Love and Psyche
Colossal Horse Head
Susanna and the Elders
Circumcision
Refectory of the observant Franciscan friars
Portrait of Francesco Roberti
The Stranger

Colossal Horse Head

Antonio Canova

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Civic Museum of Bassano del Grappa

Civic Museum of Bassano del Grappa

Piazza Garibaldi, 34, Bassano del Grappa

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The large head exhibited in the Canovian hall of the Civic Museum, restored in 2004, is one of the many fragments of the colossal horse that came to Bassano in the mid-nineteenth century thanks to the testamentary bequest of Antonio Canova's brother in law, Monsignor Giovanni Battista Sartori Canova. Dissected in 1968 and kept in storage since then, the colossus was the protagonist and starting point of Atelier Canova, a project launched in 2016 by the Civic Museums in collaboration with the Factum Foundation, which has finally made an important part of the city's heritage accessible to the public: the virtual restoration of the Colossal Horse, the realization of the facsimile of two sketchbooks and the terracotta sketch of the Three Graces. The results of these researches gave birth to Antonio Canova. Atelier, volume edited by Marsilio edited by Chiara Casarin in collaboration with Adam Lowe.
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Title: Colossal Horse Head

Author: Antonio Canova

Date: 1819-1821 c.

Technique: Gesso

Displayed in: Civic Museum of Bassano del Grappa

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