In Possagno our guests have the chance to visit the Canova Museum and Gallery which houses within the various exhibition buildings numerous collections of the works of the Artist.
All over the years the Museum has become a reference point for all the museums in the world that preserve the marble masterpieces, expressions of Antonio Canova’s talent. It is the place where you can meet Canova’s culture in a mix of past and future, tradition and innovation. It is presented as a whole constituted by the museum, the house, a library and an archive with rooms devoted to learners and to the public.
In the Plaster Cast Gallery of the Museum Gipsoteca, our customers can also find the famous Carlo Scarpa’s Hall.
Carlo Scarpa was an Italian architect born in Venice who projected the current building that houses Canova’s works of art in Possagno and the Brion Cemetery in San Vito d’Altivole, near Treviso, well-known among foreign visitors. It is a private burial ground for the Brion family, commissioned by Onorina Tomasi Brion, widow of the founder of the Brionvega company. The burial ground is famous for its private meditation/viewing pavilion, separated from the main prato by a separate and locked entrance, and a heavily vegetated reflecting pool. The “viewing device” of the pavilion of meditation suggests a vesica piscis, a repeated leitmotif in Scarpa’s architecture that is much appreciated by visitors.
Nearby the Canova Museum and Gallery, our guests will find the Tempio Canoviano that is a gift from Antonio Canova to his hometown, with its splendid internal vault housing marvelous art treasures as well as the tomb of the artist with his marble self- portrait.
