Canova: the beauty and virtue. Drawings and sculptures from the collections of Turin and Bassano del Grappa

Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 11:00 am at the Biblioteca Reale opens the exhibition Canova: the beauty and virtue. Drawings and sculptures from the collections of Turin and Bassano del Grappa.
The exhibition offers the public a collection of works by Antonio Canova, one of the leading exponents of Neoclassicism, presenting for the first time the 5 designs of Venetian art acquired by Carlo Alberto in 1845, along with drawings, sculptures and paintings from the Museo Civico Bassano del Grappa, the Gallery of Modern Art in Turin and from a private collection. The aesthetic reflection Canova opens for a more stylistic they eat devices defined for the hall of the Royal Library from Bologna Pelagio Palagi, decorative role in the renewal of the Savoy residences. Is thus added another piece to the project to develop the collections of the Library, with special attention to its unique corpus, best known for the presence of sheets of Leonardo, but at the same repository of a wide repertoire of historical and artistic. Besides the ordinary tasks of consultation of the library, the Library provides valuable opportunities for knowledge, as well as enhance the collections of the Royal Polo, will celebrate heritage through interactions established over time with the places and spaces of artistic and cultural , the background of the client and the taste of the House of Savoy.
The exhibition is curated by the director of the Museum of Bassano del Grappa Giuliana Ericani; Catalog Editor Hapax; organization of the Association MetaMorfosi.

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