Titian, Canova, the Frari Basilica, and Leopoldo Cicognara drawn together in art and destiny. Canova’s commemoration was celebrated before Titian’s Assumption in 1827, though the artwork was not kept in the Basilica, as it is today, but at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts, then presided by Leopoldo Cicognara. It had been Canova’s idea to build a mausoleum on Titian’s tomb.
