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Antonio Canova
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Recreation by our Gallery
Painting ID:: 32542
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Antonio Canova
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Italian Neoclassical Sculptor, 1757-1822
Italian sculptor, painter, draughtsman and architect. He was the most innovative and widely acclaimed sculptor of NEO-CLASSICISM. His development during the 1780s of a new style of revolutionary severity and idealistic purity led many of his contemporaries to prefer his ideal sculptures to such previously universally admired Antique statues as the Medici Venus and the Farnese Hercules, thus greatly increasing the prestige of 'modern' sculpture. He was also much in demand as a portrait sculptor. |
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1789-1790
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Related Paintings::.
| The Marquesa de Pontejos | At the Fountain | An Ideal Landscape | |
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