Antonio CanovaItalië, 1757–1822Reclining Naiad
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Intussen, in het leven van Antonio Canova
Het hele leven1791–1818
Honorary member of many academies in Europe and America
Canova was elected an honorary member of many academies: Florence (1791), Stockholm (1796), Verona (1803), Venice (1804), Siena (1805), Lucca (1806), St Petersburg (1804), Geneva (1804), Denmark (1805), Graz (1812), Marseille (1813), Monaco (1814), New York (1817), Antwerp and Vilnius (1818), and also Philadelphia.
1818
The people of Possagno ask him to repair their church
In 1818 the people of Possagno persuaded Canova to repair the old parish church; the sculptor later decided instead to build a new one at his own expense and to his own design, circular in plan with a pronaos modelled on the Pantheon in Rome.
11 July 1819
Lays the foundation stone of his own temple in Possagno
After his 1814 proposal for a statue of Religion in St Peter’s was rejected, Canova resolved to build his own temple: he designed and financed the building himself and partly built it, combining the Parthenon and the Pantheon. On 11 July 1819 he laid the foundation stone, dressed in a red papal uniform and wearing all his medals, and afterwards visited Possagno every autumn to direct the workmen.
