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unusual facts about Canova



Ali e radici

Michele Canova (who is Tiziano Ferro and Giusy Ferreri's producer) is the co-producer of the six songs of the album.

Broadway Danny Rose

Allen initially offered the part of the has-been singer Lou Canova to Sylvester Stallone.

Rose's one-man talent agency represents countless untalented entertainers, including washed-up lounge singer Lou Canova (Nick Apollo Forte), whose career is on the rebound.

Charles Long, 1st Baron Farnborough

Long negotiated royal commissions with artists such as Canova, Westmacott, and Lawrence, and when the king decided to reconstruct Windsor Castle, Long drew up a brief which detailed every important feature of the castle as subsequently remodelled by Jeffry Wyattville, from the formation of the Grand Corridor to the heightening of the keep, and he also made a sketch-plan in 1823 for the sunken garden below the east terrace.

John Campbell, 1st Baron Cawdor

John Thorpe, Henry Tresham, James Durno and Thomas Jenkins, commissioned paintings of archaeological sites in Naples and Sicily from Xavier della Gatta, Tito Lusieri, Henry Tresham and Louis Ducros, and bought sculptures from the young Canova.

Pinacoteca di Brera

Raphael's Sposalizio (the Marriage of the Virgin) was the key painting of the early collection, and the Academy increased its cultural scope by taking on associates across the First French Empire: David, Pietro Benvenuti, Vincenzo Camuccini, Canova, Thorvaldsen and the archaeologist Ennio Quirino Visconti.


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