Museo Canova

[1] In 1957 the modernist Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa extended a wing of this gallery in order to bathe the semblances in light.

[2] Among the casts in the gipsoteca is the one for Canova's Venus Victrix, or more specifically Pauline Bonaparte as Venus Victrix (1805-1808); originally used as a model for the marble, During the first Battle of Monte Grappa in 1917, a Christmas-time bombing severed the head of the plaster and damaged parts of the hands, feet, and cloth.

[3][4] The gipsoteca also holds the modello for Canova's lost George Washington (1820); which was installed in the rotunda of the North Carolina State House in 1821 and destroyed by the structure's collapse brought on by fire in 1831.

[7] The other main building is the artist's birthplace "casa natale di Antonio Canova" (the house where he was born), which today contains an art gallery (oils on canvas and tempera), some drawings, the engravingss of the works, and numerous memorabilia.

In 1799 Canova planted a stone pine tree on the site and it still flourishes there in the gardens the museum maintains today.