Sir John Soane's Museum is a small museum built by the English architect John Soane.
The museum is in fact located in what was once his home and collects the collection that the neoclassical architect put together over the course of his life.
In fact, he lived in the building for about twenty years and conceived it, from the beginning of his stay, as a real laboratory.
For this reason, he modified and distorted the interior spaces several times.
Soane, who avidly collected art objects, pieces of architecture, sculpture, paintings and drawings, then built a veritable self-celebratory museum.
In 1833 Soane decided to donate his collection, however, vetoing that after his death it should be converted into a museum and could not be changed in any way in its parts.
It is therefore not surprising that today the Sir John Soane's Museum still preserves the spaces as they were left by the architect, complete with original furniture. Inside, the museum is characterized by a succession of rooms on several floors according to what is called a Piranesian succession.
Soane's collection, rich and heterogeneous, also includes works of a certain importance such as a series created by Canaletto on Venice (Riva degli schiavoni, Venice View on the Grand Canal).
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