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 intentionally plaster casts of different subjects and of various sizes and types crowd without any precise arrangement.
Here worked Antonio Canova, who left the studio to his pupil and spiritual heir Adamo Tadolini, founder of the family of sculptors who used it until the 1960s.
The rooms on the ground floor house a rich collection of plaster casts by Canova, Thorvaldsen, and especially the Tadolinis Adamo, Scipione, Giulio, and Enrico, and the room with the work tools and the stone basins for making plaster; climbing the narrow and steep wooden stairs, you reach the upper floors and the Anatomy room, where the sculptors’ anatomical plaster exercises are found.
