👨‍🎨1 November 1757
Antonio Canova was born in Possagno (today in #Treviso province, at the time Republic Of Venice).
#Canova is considered the greatest Neoclassical artist, his marble sculptures are the most breathtaking symbols of perfection!
His most famous masterpieces are Amore e Psiche ("Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss") held at Louvre Museum in Paris and Le Tre Grazie ("The Three Graces") held at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.

Here in Venice we can admire #AntonioCanova sculptures at Correr Museum in #SanMarco Square, but I strongly recommend to visit his Home Museum and Temple in his birthplace #Possagno: absolute magic! #1November

Canova passed away in Venice 200 years ago on 13 October 1822.
His body lies in his Temple in Possagno while his heart... 👉 read more here

📜Venice Celebrations Series. #11November, San Martino.
According to the Catholic calendar today is San Martino of Tours, a Medieval knight who became Saint after donating his coat to a poor freezing man: it was November and miraculously it stopped raining and the sun shone ☀️. That's why they call it St. Martin's Summer (it's like the Indian Summer) and usually these days of November are sunny and warm 🌞
In Venice, #SanMartino day is celebrated with the traditional chocolate sweet which lies on every Venetian table☝️😋 and with children running around town, beating their pots, chanting an ancient San Martino rhyme and asking for sweets in the shops... similar to #Halloween, less scary and with deeper roots!

📸☝️In the pictures the Medieval San Martino Church in Venice #Castello (probably founded by Longobards from Ravenna town, that's why a French Saint became so popular here!) and San Martino's engraving on its façade, reproduced in the local sweet!
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📜👨‍🔬11 November 1788. Pietro Paleòcapa, an Italian scientist, engineer and later politician was born in Nese, Alzano Lombardo (BG), at the time under Venice domination. His family was of Greek origins and they decided to emigrate and live in Venice territory.
In 1840 #Paleocapa became a general manager in Venice, and oversaw the works on the rivers Brenta, Bacchiglione, Adige, Tartaro-Canalbianco-Po di Levante, the drainage of several marshy areas near #Verona and the construction of a dam in #Malamocco, Venice.
He was a patriot and believed in #Italy unification, and he played an important role in the negotiation of the annexation of Venice to Piedmont kingdom.
The first monument statue📸☝️we all meet when entering Venice historical centre is dedicated to him: it was placed inside the Papadopoli Gardens, built and commissioned by the Papadopoli family in the XIX century, still today the first and largest green area🌳 we see in #SantaCroce district.
Do you remember this place?
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👨‍🎨15 November 1701. Pietro Longhi, prominent and prolific XVIII century Venetian painter was born Pietro Falca in Venice. He adopted the art name "Longhi" as soon as he started painting.
Longhi's pictures of real life in Venice (mainly banquets, feasts, brothels, gaming houses, street life) was in constant reference to the theatrical world, and a parallel development can be traced between his work and that of the contemporary Venetian playwright #CarloGoldoni: the latter, through the overcoming of the "Commedia dell'Arte", created a new type of theater inspired by real life, in the same way #PietroLonghi painted the social customs of the time.

Most of Longhi's paintings and frescoes are today held and visitable in Venice Museums and Palaces like Ca' Rezzonico, Querini Stampalia, Accademia Galleries, Ca' Sagredo☝️

#Longhi was also crucial for introducing to the global imagery of the time the traditional Venice Carnival masks 🎭 as people often appear wearing them in his paintings!
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