148:. In this period, he had his atelier in Florence, via Ricasoli 54. He was also the author of religious paintings for public customers such as "The baptism of Jesus", exhibited in 1861 in Florence, for the parish church of San Giovanni a Sugana and "Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints Lorenzo and Zanobi", in the romantic climate of Renaissance Revival historicism, for the third chapel of
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Canovai painted with sentimental and emotional tone following the classical references of the masters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He was an extremely cultured painter with an impeccable technique that was never icy and coldly blocked by sterile idealizations but characterized
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Philemon's house" in 1847, the first prize for the drawing "The count
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