Beauty and ideal. The Canova that can be seen in Brera – Milan

From tomorrow, the sculpture of Antonio Canova welcomes visitors to the Pinacoteca di Brera. Twelve busts made by the master of Possagno, found in Villa Canal Alla Gherla, near Treviso, and restored by Banca IFIS, take a seat in the Museum’s Senate and remembers the dedication of the sculptor in favor of the academy. A tribute to neoclassicism, under the star whose Accademia di Brera was born, but also for the role of customers who have fed the collections of the Pinacoteca over time.

Published by Chiara Rostagno and Valentina Ferrari, Beauty and ideal. The Canova collection of Banca IFIS and the Pinacoteca trip presents the plaster -dependent busts of some masterpieces of the neoclassical master: Station” Tersicorethe Venus Italthe PaceIn addition to the portraits of the women of the Bonaparte family, from the face of the famous Paolina BorgheseTo that of Carolina Murat, Elisa Baciocchi Bonaparte and Letizia Ramolino, mother of the emperor. On the busts of Parid one Beatrite The Rs are still visiblespearSmall studs used by the buzzers of the Canova Studio as transport points from chalk to marble. On the twelve sculptures found, the marble bust of the EnactedCreated by Canova between 1818 and 1819, who returned to Brera after more than a hundred years, and the SO -Called “Traveling Pinacoteca” by Giovanni Battista SOMMARIVAcomposed of precious enamel reproductions of the paintings collected by the powerful politician connected to Napoleon, donated to the Pinacoteca by Emilia Sommariva Seilliva Seillière in 1973. The Canovian travel schedule then continues with the famous famous famous Napoleon as a paciforist of MarsAlready a resident of the first courtyard of the Brera Academy, restored on the occasion of the 200 -year Pinacoteca and transferred to the original location in the center of room 15.

Beauty and ideal. The Canova collection of Banca IFIS and the Pinacoteca © Pinacoteca di Brera © Pinacoteca

“The Choice to open the path of the pinacoteca with an exhibition dedicated to canova solves a place in a magnificent way that has number that had number destinations over the years”, observes angelo crespi, general manager of the pinacoteca di brida, Palazo, Palora, “” Theera, the busts has also allowed to exhibit, in the center, the marble of the Enacted Van Canova, giving the idea of ​​the idea of ​​the new sculpture and decorative arts department to relocate the sculptures of our collection on the museum path, extended to museum reasons since 1902 and submitted to other institutions. To resist Canova, it was decided, and it is again a return to set up the Zo -driven “traveling Pinacoteca” from the Giovanni Battista Sommariva collection “.

“The idea is to pay tribute to neoclassicism – concludes Crespi – preceded by the great Milanese lighting that is celebrated in the pantheon of our loggia, and created by that handful of extraordinary artists fed the walls: Andrea Appiani, Giuseppe Bossi, Antonio Canovah”.

Beauty and ideal. The Canova collection of Banca IFIS and the Pinacoteca © Pinacoteca di Brera © Pinacoteca

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