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Torquato Tasso (5); Andrea Mantegna (21); Ludovico Ariosto (27); Giuseppe Tartini (29); Francesco Petrarca (35); Galileo Galilei (36); Antonio Canova (68); Francesco Guicciardini (73).\t Dante Alighieri (A) \tGiotto (B)<\/p>\n

Statue no. 21 Andrea Mantegna <\/b>
Hi, I’m Andrea Mantegna. I was born into a humble family on the island of Carturo (now Isola Mantegna), a small agricultural centre near Piazzola sul Brenta, in the year 1431. As a young boy I was sent to look after the sheep but my passion for drawing often led me to neglect this task. One day while I was drawing I was accidentally noticed by Squarcione, a renowned painter from Padova who, seeing my potential, talked to my parents and took me in as his son…
Statue no. 29 Giuseppe Tartini<\/b>
Hi, I am Giuseppe Tartini, born from a noble Florentine family in Piran of Istria in 1692. When I was young I was started to the ecclesiastical career, but in 1710 I abandoned my theological studies and enrolled in law courses at the University of Padova. I really loved knightly exercises, I was a talented swordsman and my intention was to become a master in the art of fencing either in Naples or in France. When I was twenty instead I fell victim to my youthful impulses and I got married against everyone’s will to a young girl of humble origins, daughter of Cardinal Giorgio Cornaro’s coachman\u2026\tI was a great composer and Jean-Baptiste d\u2019Alembert wrote this about me in his famous Encyclopedia<\/i>: “Tartini’s music is more about feeling and a language than sound and harmony”.
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An unique journey to discover the stories of the 78 statues of Prato della Valle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":961029,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":""},"categories":[594,595,865],"tags":[772,1799],"categorie-percorsi":[1344,1348],"class_list":["post-82725","percorsi","type-percorsi","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-art-and-culture","category-guided-tours-and-excursions","tag-thematical-tour","tag-tour-en-2","categorie-percorsi-escursioni-giornaliere-en","categorie-percorsi-art-and-culture"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nDiscover artists and scientists of Padua<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Torquato Tasso; Andrea Mantegna; Ludovico Ariosto; Giuseppe Tartini; Francesco Petrarca; Galileo Galilei\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.turismopadova.it\/en\/paths\/the-statues-disclose-their-history-scholars-artists-and-scientists\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Discover artists and scientists of Padua\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Torquato Tasso; 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