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Not long now! The great exhibition on ancient Egypt will be inaugurated on 22 December 2022 in the wonderful location of the Basilica Palladiana in the center of Vicenza. From our Relais Santa Corona it can be reached in a couple of minutes on foot.

The exhibition provides a cross-section of daily life in ancient Egypt, with a particular focus on Thebes, today’s Luxor, and Deir el-Medina, the village, founded around 1500 BC, where scribes, draftsmen and craftsmen worked to build and decorate the tombs of the pharaohs in the Valleys of the Kings and Queens, shaping the imagination of the ancient civilization born on the banks of the Nile.

The exhibition brings together more than 180 objects, in addition to the Egyptian finds, there are about twenty loans from the Louvre in Paris. On display are masterpieces of statuary, sarcophagi, papyri, bas-reliefs, sculpted and painted steles, amphorae and amulets. Many treasures will be revealed during the exhibition, including the anthropoid sarcophagus of Khonsuirdis and the famous trousseau of Queen Nefertari, who returns to Italy, in Vicenza, after several years of touring abroad.

Info: https://www.mostreinbasilica.it/it/

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Relais Santa Corona, small and exclusive in the heart of Vicenza.

Considered by his contemporaries to be the greatest living artist, Antonio Canova was celebrated as the one who had brought sculpture back to those sublime heights that were believed to be only due to classical statuary. Witness of a period of great historical and political upheavals, the humble stonemason from Possagno conquered the international art scene, competing with the greats of his time and contributing to the recovery of masterpieces through important diplomatic missions.

The man, the artist, the collector, the diplomat are the many aspects brought to light for the first time by this exhibition with which the Civic Museums of Bassano del Grappa, Vicenza, custodians of one of the collections of Canova’s works and documents large and important in the world, they pay homage to the greatest sculptor of the neoclassical era on the bicentenary of his death. About 140 works including sculptures, paintings, drawings and precious books, some of which presented to the public for the first time, guide the visitor on an ideal journey in the footsteps of Canova, from the creative universe of his atelier to the great capitals of the old continent, to discover the episodes and encounters with the characters that determined the course of his life and of European history.

In Bassano del Grappa, in the province of Vicenza, until 26 February 2023. Bassano can be reached from Vicenza and from our Relais Santa Corona in about 40 minutes by car.

https://www.museibassano.it/it/mostra/io-canova-genio-europeo

Roberto Bolle has been our guest at Relais Santa Corona in Vicenza with other dancers to shoot at Palazzo Leoni Montanari, a wonderful baroque building next to us. He is currently a principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre and a principal dancer étoile at La Scala Theatre Ballet. Bolle also dances regularly as a guest artist with the world’s leading companies, including The Royal Ballet, the Mariinsky Ballet, the Bolshoi Ballet and the Paris Opera Ballet.