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closed CANOVA AND VENICE 1822-2022

The show

VENICE by the great sculptor ANTONIO CANOVA saw the birth of genius and luck. As fate would have it, it was also the place where he died on October 13, 1822 , exactly two hundred years ago. In VENICE , Canova's place par excellence is the CORRER MUSEUM . There, in fact, almost by predestined design, one after the other, many of his works intimately linked to the city converged, the result of the esteem and gratitude exchanged between the sculptor and the intelligent patricians who had initiated him to the greatness of art, the last Venetian of a centuries-old glorious tradition, but also the first of an Italy and a Europe not yet born, but already “in power”.


Al Correr Canova is also celebrated by Venice for its merits felt by citizens with even pre-Risorgimento value, for the return to the lagoon of many works of art taken by the Napoleonic, essential identity heritage of the unforgettable Serenissima (the Horses of San Marco, the Winged Lion of the Column!) After the critical twentieth-century oblivion of Canova art, definitively canceled by a historic exhibition held right in the Correr halls in 1992, the recent exhibition rearrangement of the sculptures in a new, bright setting honors the genius of " modern Phidias "; a complex operation carried out in 2015 by the FONDAZIONE MUSEI CIVICI DI VENEZIA with the essential support of the VENICE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION association and its “Sublime Canova” project.


From 28 October 2022, on the occasion of the bicentenary of his death, the sculptor is dutifully celebrated at the Correr with an exhibition created by the FONDAZIONE MUSEI CIVICI DI VENEZIA, again with the support of VENICE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION, curated by Andrea Bellieni and Camilla Grimaldi: the sculpture of Canova reinterpreted and interpreted by an authentic artist of photography: FABIO ZONTA.

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30124 Venice

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