Museo Civico di Bassano Site Features

The building is a former Franciscan convent, plain and functional, arranged around a cloister. It has been adapted rather than rebuilt, so the galleries are cellular and modest in scale, which suits the paintings.

The adjoining church of San Francesco, thirteenth-century, is worth stepping into for its fresco fragments and its wooden crucifix.

The Bassano family paintings

The largest single collection of Jacopo and his sons -- night scenes, animals and country work.

Canova drawings and plasters

Material relating to the sculptor, born at nearby Possagno.

The Remondini holdings

Prints from the town's eighteenth-century publishing house.

The cloister

The convent's own quiet courtyard, part of the visit.