When Antonio Canova
died, Monsignor
Giovanni Battista
Sartori decided
either to close the
Study in Rome where
many masterpieces
were created or to
move all the plaster
casts, the unsold
Marbles, the
paintings, the
Sketches and all
what was in the
warehouses, to
Possagno.
In order to host all
the above mentioned
collections, Sartori
arranged to build a
Gallery, near the
artist’s native
home.This allowed
the tourists and the
scholars to admire
Canova’s works on
the whole.
The
Museo
Canoviano
located
in
Possagno
near
Asolo
