Accademia Tadini, Art and history museum in Lovere, Italy.
The Accademia Tadini is an art and history museum in Lovere displaying paintings, sculptures, archaeological objects, and porcelain collections across multiple rooms with views of Lake Iseo. The premises are fully wheelchair accessible and house a research library with around 4600 volumes.
Count Luigi Tadini of Verona had his grandson, the self-trained architect Sebastiano Salimbeni, design the palace; work began in 1820 with the chapel for Canova's Stele Tadini and the gallery was finished in 1826. Tadini's testament of 4 March 1828 formally established the institute, and by 1828 the museum was open to the public. He intended the collections and decoration as aids for the school of design.
The great hall of the palace hosts concerts and theatrical performances, continuing the musical and drawing schools that Count Luigi Tadini founded in his 1828 will and that still operate. The library of about seven thousand volumes, restored in 2011-2012, is now part of the museum route.
The gallery occupies the piano nobile of the neoclassical palace on Via Tadini 40, facing the shore of Lake Iseo. The museum opened to the public in 1828, and the library hall, restored in 2011-2012, now forms part of the visit. Allow time for the archaeological cabinet with its Pompeian-style decoration.
The Stele Tadini was carved by Antonio Canova between 1819 and 1821 to commemorate Faustino Tadini, who died in 1799 at 25. Canova himself suggested the commission to Count Luigi Tadini. The original plaster model is held at the Musei Civici in Bassano del Grappa.
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