Antonio Canova 1757-1822
the great master of Neoclassical sculpture
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The Three Graces: Antonio Canova
Canova Ideal Heads
Canova and the Politics of Patronage in Revolutionary and ..
Canova Ideal Heads
Antonio Canova : la statuaria by Ottorino Stefani
Antonio Canova : Works in Possagno in the Venetian region
Canova e Roma
Canova pittore : tra eros e thanatos
Antonio Canova (1757-1822) als Kèunstler und Diplomat
The Sculptural Imagination: Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist
Italian and Spanish Sculpture: Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum

Antonio Canova was the greatest sculptor of his time. This is the story of an unusual gift of sculpture he made to four Englishmen. In 1815, he was Pope Pius VII's representative to the Paris Peace Conference to seek restitution of great art from Rome and the Vatican handed to French Revolutionary armies under the Treaty of Tolentino. He thanked four Englishmen for helping to fulfill his mission by creating four 'ideal heads' -- for William Hamilton, the Duke of Wellington, Sir Charles Long and Viscount Castlereaugh. Covers his techniques, particularly in relation to the coloring of sculpture. (The Hamilton head was sold at Sotheby's in 1995 and landed in the Ashmolean.) [ read more ]