The Museo Canova Tadolini di Roma reopened to the public in October 2003, after more than 35 years of closure. Thanks to a careful restoration, respectful of the materials and nineteenth-century structures, the original atmosphere of the art studio has been preserved, where plaster casts of different subjects and of various sizes and types are deliberately crowded without a precise arrangement.
Antonio Canova worked here, who left the atelier to his pupil and spiritual heir Adamo Tadolini, the progenitor of the family of sculptors who used it until the 1960s.
The rooms on the ground floor house a rich series of plaster casts by Canova, Thorvaldsen, and especially the Tadolini family: Adamo, Scipione, Giulio, and Enrico, as well as the room with the trade tools and the stone basins for making plaster; climbing the narrow and steep wooden stairs, one accesses the upper floors and the Anatomy room, where the sculptors’ anatomical plaster exercises can be found.
