Word: paestum
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...total, adoring immersion in the ideal of the Antique, are lost to us; try as we may, we cannot feel the reverence for it that he did. For Canova, the Antique was a truth mine. He visited every ancient site in Italy he could get to -- Naples, Paestum, the newly excavated sites of Pompeii and Herculaneum; his connections gave him access to private hoards of statuary from Rome to Venice...