Antonio Canova
Italian Artist · 1757–1822
8 works across 2 collections on LinkedCulture
Called "the supreme minister of beauty" and "a unique and truly divine man" by contemporaries, Antonio Canova was considered the greatest sculptor of his time. Despite his lasting reputation as a champion of Neoclassicism, Canova's earliest works displayed a late Baroque or Rococo sensibility that was appealing to his first patrons, nobility from his native Venice. During his first and second visi
Works
View as IIIF ↗Apollo Crowning Himself
Getty Museum · 1781–1782
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Bust of Napoleon
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · ca. 1808–14
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Hercules about to hurl Lichas into the sea
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · first half 19th century
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Herm of a Vestal Virgin
Getty Museum · 1821–1822
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Study for a Tomb
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · ca. 1790/91–95
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The Graces and Venus Dancing before Mars
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 19th century
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The Vestal
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · probably ca. 1819–23
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Venus Italica
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · probably ca. 1822–23, variant of marble first executed 1810
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