Danzatrice con cembali in rosso

“Danzatrice con cembali in rosso” is an NFT-Digital work derived from a sculpture by Antonio Canova (1811). The work was made by Gio Montez and Manuel Grillo for the Atelier Canova Tadolini Museum in 2023.

On the bicentenary of the death of the renowned neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova, a protector and promoter of Italian culture and a synonym for beauty worldwide, ARTup has unveiled in Italy the first-ever N.F.T. phygital created with a work of art. This became possible by combining N.F.T. technology with the underlying sculpture “Dancer with Cymbals,” created by Antonio Canova in 1811.

Indeed, this is the first N.F.T.

Phygital created with a work of art of rare and particular artistic and historical interest protected by the Supervision of the Ministry of Culture. The avant-garde operation, followed and supervised by the legal firm A.T.G., with lawyers Lorenzo Saverio D’Attilia and Emanuele Tedesco, has thus woven a new connection between Italy’s glorious artistic past and the digital future, uniting Antonio Canova‘s sculpture, Affidaty’s blockchain technology, and ARTup‘s patented innovative 4.0 industrial process.

The initiative, promoted by Hon. Federico Mollicone, founder of the Culture, Art, and Sport Inter-Group (I.C.A.S.) of the Chamber of Deputies, and the Museo Atelier Canova Tadolini, which houses the collection of marbles, plaster casts, and sketches, has sparked the interest of art historians such as Prof. Claudio Strinati, who hosted and presided over the press conference at the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, and the illustrious Vittorio Sgarbi, President of the Canova Foundation. The unique and immortal creation of Antonio Canova is now ready to dance even in the metaverse, revealing to the world a true digital revolution in the processes of experiencing and promoting contemporary art and Italian cultural heritage worldwide: Made in Italy 4.0. But Artup does not stop here.

Commissioned by the Museo Atelier Canova Tadolini, artists Gio Montez and Manuel Grillo have created a second N.F.T.

Digital artwork derived from the original, titled “Dancer with Cymbals in Red” to emphasize the innovative aspects of the artistic, cultural, and technological operation and comparing the two different types of N.F.T., “Phygital” and “Digital,” created through the services offered by ARTup. The artists have shown how tradition can merge with innovation, giving rise to a new artistic era, a New Renaissance of Italian culture. The entire decentralized ecosystem designed by ARTup integrates the excellent blockchain technology provided by Affidaty S.p.A. to integrate traditional payment systems from the banking circuit with decentralized paytech, as well as to provide a rich offering of fungible and non-fungible tokens like the ARTup Stable Coin (D1A), the ARTup Volatile Coin (D0A), and various types of N.F.T. available on the Synkrony Exchange.

The blockchain technology expertly integrated with various I.o.T solutions and with the artificial intelligence named “BART,” the Digital Art Advisor of the ARTup ecosystem, authenticates, makes unique, and irreplaceable even reproductions of the original artworks, akin to Antonio Canova‘s conception of art. Finally, the Museo Atelier Canova Tadolini intends to auction the first digital N.F.T, “Dancer with Cymbals in Red,” derived from the original work of Antonio Canova, planning for the occasion an experimental auction using Synkrony Exchange technologies.

This journey not only pays homage to the past but warmly embraces the future, allowing art to flourish in new, unexplored digital dimensions provided by Artup‘s N.F.T technology and Affidaty S.p.A.’s blockchain.

Source: https://affidaty.io/blog/en/2023/11/canova-artup-affidaty/