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Antonio Canova
Antonio Canova was an Italian Neoclassical sculptor, famous for his marble sculptures. Often regarded as the greatest of the Neoclassical artists, his sculpture was inspired by the Baroque and the classical revival, and has been characterised as having avoided the melodramatics of the former, and the cold artificiality of the latter.
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culture · Italian Neoclassical sculptor (1757–1822) · sculptor · architect · painter · draftsperson · engraver · also Antonio Canova, Antoine Canova, Marchese d'Ischia Antonio Canova, Canova, Antonio Kanova, A. Canova
Born 1 November 1757 · Died 13 October 1822 · Q5547
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
Repubblica: Antonio Canova, ritorno a Possagno
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2022· 1 entry
VanityFair: Antonio Canova: le mostre a Bassano e Venezia per i 200 anni di un «grande classico»
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2020· 1 entry
Artnet: The Austrian Tourist Who Sat on a Sculpture at Italy’s Antonio Canova Museum Has Issued an Apology
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2019· 1 entry
SiViaggia: Dove puoi vedere le sculture di Antonio Canova in Italia
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2018· 1 entry
A crater on Mercury was named in his honor
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2015· 1 entry
Corriere della Sera: ANTONIO CANOVA A PARIGI CACCIA ALL’ARTE PERDUTA
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2003· 1 entry
Exibart: Antonio Canova Monumento funebre di Maria Cristina d’Austria
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1996· 1 entry
That "the importance and value of Canova's art is now recognized as holding in balance the last echo of the Ancients and the first symptom of the restless experimentation of the modern age"
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1970· 1 entry
Now on view in the rotunda of the capitol building
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1910· 1 entry
Now on view at the North Carolina Museum of History
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1826· 1 entry
Giovanni Battista Sartori sold Canova's Roman studio and took every plaster model and sculpture to Possagno, where they were installed in the gypsotheque of the Tempio Canoviano
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1822· 3 entries
Died 1822-10-13.
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Awarded honorary citizen of Asolo (1822).
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Journeyed to Naples, to superintend the construction of wax moulds for an equestrian statue of Ferdinand VII
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1820· 1 entry
Made a statue of George Washington for the state of North Carolina
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1819· 2 entries
Commenced and completed his commissioned work Venus Italica as a replacement for the Venus de' Medici
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It was installed at the Duke's residence in Woburn Abbey
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1816· 1 entry
Canova returned to Rome with some of the art Napoleon had taken
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1815· 4 entries
Visited London, and met with Benjamin Haydon
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The original went to the Duke of Wellington, after his victory at Waterloo against Napoleon and is on display at Apsley House
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Was named 'Minister Plenipotentiary of the Pope,' and was tasked by Pope Pius VII with recovering various works of art that were taken to Paris by Napoleon under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1815)
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The original went to the Duke of Wellington, after his victory at Waterloo against Napoleon
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1814· 1 entry
And had been immensely impressed by a carving of the Graces the sculptor had made for the Empress Joséphine
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1811· 1 entry
The statue arrived in Paris, but not installed; neither was its bronze copy in the Foro Napoleonico in Milan
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1808· 1 entry
Canova became an associated member of the Royal Institute of Sciences, Literature and Fine Arts of the Kingdom of Holland
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1803· 1 entry
With Napoleon requesting to be shown in a French General's uniform, Canova rejected this, insisting on an allusion to Mars, the Roman god of War
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1802· 1 entry
Canova was assigned the post of 'Inspector-General of Antiquities and Fine Art of the Papal State', a position formerly held by Raphael
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1757· 1 entry
Born 1757-11-01.
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