museum of  atelier canova tadolini

( Museo Atelier Canova Tadolini )

 

The museum was recently rescued from a property venture that would have devastated the historic premises and caused the loss of the items kept in it, the Canova-Tadolini Museum is a rare example of a restored yet undamaged sculpture atelier in a part of Rome which is still filled with the spirit of a lost world.

The study in Via del Babuino represents the handing down of the artisan techniques from master to apprentice which has always governed the productive trends of the art world with unique effectiveness: it was already the Canova's workplace, then, the atelier was inherited by his pupil and favourite assistant Adamo Tadolini that in turn handed it down, from father to son, for as many as four generations of sculptors of marble and bronze over a period of time spanning from very early in the nineteenth century until the 1960s.

The statues that inhabit this box of art treasures displayed for the enjoyment of the public, is evidence then not only of the work by individual craftsmen who worked there but also and above all of the extraordinary historical continuity of an art studio, the only one in Rome and with very few equals even elsewhere in Europe.

Information and Addresses

Address Via del Babuino, 150/a/b

Visiting Hours From Mondays to Saturdays from 9.00 am to 8.00 pm Closed August

Telephone 06 321107°2; Fax 06 32629336

Price Free admission

 

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