Room of the plaster

Room of the plaster casts is a bright gallery on the third floor, located between the main stairway and the Borrominian ramp of Palazzo Carpegna (Gustavo Giovannoni restored the latter at the beginning of the 1930s, when the Academy moved in after the demolition of its historic seat in via di Bonella).
After an accurate conservation work the room displays specimens of one of the most representative collections in the history of the Academy, namely the series of original plaster casts by Canova, Thorvaldsen, Kessels, Wolff, Tenerani and Zagari, among others, mostly bequests or “entrance gifts” of the artists to the Roman prestigious institution.