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The Tempio Canoviano or Temple of Canova is a 
The atrium or
Roman Catholic
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parish church built in a severe Neoclassical style, based on the designs of Antonio Canova
Antonio Canova (; 1 November 1757 – 13 October 1822) was an Italian Neoclassical sculptor, famous for his marble sculptures. Often regarded as the greatest of the Neoclassical artists,. his sculpture was inspired by the Baroque and the cla ...
. It is located on a hilltop in Possagno
Possagno is a comune in the Province of Treviso, in the Italian region Veneto. It is located about northwest of Venice and about northwest of Treviso. As of 31 August 2021, it had a population of 2,191 and an area of .All demographics and other ...
in the Province of Treviso
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in the region of Veneto
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, Italy
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.
Work on the temple, which is dedicated to the Holy Trinity, began in 1819 and resumed after Canova's death in 1822 until 1830 under the supervision of abbot Giovanni Battista Sartori and architect Giuseppe Segusini. The project underwent several modifications by Pietro Bosio and Giovanni Zardo along with Giannantonio Selva and Luigi Rossini. The structure recalls the Pantheon of Rome. Canova almost single-handedly financed the site since he wished to be buried there after his request of a burial at the Rome Pantheon was denied. Upon completion in 1830 his remains were transferred to the church.
The atrium or pronaos
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is nearly in size, the diameter of the interior and height of the cupola, and contains 16 doric columns. The architrave
In classical architecture, an architrave (; from it, architrave "chief beam", also called an epistyle; from Greek ἐπίστυλον ''epistylon'' "door frame") is the lintel or beam that rests on the capitals of columns.
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bears the Latin inscription: ''DEO OPT MAX UNI AV TRINO'' (Temple dedicated to the Optimal God, one and three). The metopes were carved by pupils from stucco casts of Canova.
The altars contain canvases from shuttered churches and monasteries including by Luca Giordano (St Francis of Paola); Palma il Giovane
Iacopo Negretti (1548/50 – 14 October 1628), best known as Jacopo or Giacomo Palma il Giovane or simply Palma Giovane ("Young Palma"), was an Italian painter from Venice and a notable exponent of the Venetian school.
After Tintoretto's death ...
(Jesus in Gesthemane); Giovanni de Sacchis called il Pordenone
Pordenone, Il Pordenone in Italian, is the byname of Giovanni Antonio de’ Sacchis (c. 1484 – 14 January 1539), an Italian Mannerist painter, loosely of the Venetian school. Vasari, his main biographer, wrongly identifies him as Giovann ...
(Madonna of the Mercies); and Andrea Vicentino
Andrea Vicentino (c. 1542 – 1617) was an Italian painter of the late- Renaissance or Mannerist period. He was a pupil of the painter Giovanni Battista Maganza. Born in Vicenza, he was also known as ''Andrea Michieli'' or ''Michelli''. He mo ...
(Saints Sebastian; Francis of Assisi, Roch, Anthony with the Madonna and child and a glory of angels). The bronze sculpture of the ''Pietà'' was completed by Bartolomeo Ferrari, based on models by Canova. Above the altar is a ''Deposition'' painted by Canova.
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