{"id":2697,"date":"2012-03-23T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vintageholidays.co.uk\/?p=2697"},"modified":"2012-03-23T09:00:33","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T09:00:33","slug":"art-in-tuscany-and-the-dapres-canova-exhibition-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagetravel.co.uk\/blog\/art-in-tuscany-and-the-dapres-canova-exhibition-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Art in Tuscany and the D\u2019apres Canova exhibition 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuscany\u2019s D\u2019apres Canova exhibition \u2013 Exploring 19<sup>th<\/sup> century neoclassic Italian art.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagetravel.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/art-in-tuscany-vintage-travel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2698\" title=\"art in tuscany vintage travel\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vintagetravel.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/art-in-tuscany-vintage-travel.jpg\" alt=\"Art in Tuscany\" width=\"410\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vintagetravel.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/art-in-tuscany-vintage-travel.jpg 410w, https:\/\/www.vintagetravel.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/art-in-tuscany-vintage-travel-375x244.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the Romans to the Renaissance, Tuscany is one of the greatest fountains of art in the world. From awe-inspiring paintings, majestic murals, architectural masterpieces to truly sublime sculptures, for centuries, travellers have been arriving in Tuscany in search of fine art and stimulating culture.<\/p>\n<p>Because of its age-old affirmation in producing and displaying some of the finest art in the world, Tuscany plays host to vibrant year-round calendar of art exhibitions and events.<\/p>\n<p>One such event being held in Tuscany is the D\u2019apres Canova exhibition 2012. Until June 25 2012, the D\u2019apres Canova exhibition will be displayed at the Palazzo Binelli in the Tuscan city of Carrara in the province of Massa Carrara.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the exhibition is, according to Tuscanypass.com, \u2018to restore rightful critical consideration a sculptural tradition which ideally stems from the work of Antonio Canova, but which developed in original ways through the teaching of Lorenzo Bartolini and Thorvaldsen.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>If you are not completely \u2018au fait\u2019 on Italian art, Antonio Canova was an Italian sculpture from Venice who became best known for creating marble sculptures of nude human flesh in a neoclassical style.\u00a0 Lorenzo Bartolini was one of Canova\u2019s contemporaries, another Italian sculpture who permeated neoclassicism with naturalistic detail in his sculptures.<\/p>\n<p>Spending most of his time in Italian in the late 18<sup>th<\/sup> and early 19<sup>th<\/sup> centuries, at the time when both Bartolini and Canova were thriving, was the Danish-Icelandic sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen, who maintained a huge workshop in Rome where he worked in a heroic neoclassic style into his sculptures.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0 D\u2019apres Canova exhibition is exhibiting the tastes and trends of Italian 19<sup>th<\/sup> century sculpture, focussing particularly on a collection of plaster casts that held by the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on this mind-opening Italian art exhibition in Carrara visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fondazionecrcrrara.com\/\">fondazionecrcrrara.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuscany\u2019s D\u2019apres Canova exhibition \u2013 Exploring 19th century neoclassic Italian art. 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