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Self-portrait as a Sculptor

Antonio Canova1799

Museum Gipsoteca Antonio Canova

Museum Gipsoteca Antonio Canova
Possagno, Italy

In the plaster and the marble the features of the artist are idealized, whereas in the oil painting his features are more realistic. It is interesting to compare the self-portrait found in the Uffizi in Florence (oil on canvas, 68x54.5, 1792, reproduced several times by Luigia Giuli), with the one found in the Rome Museum (Rome) and the drawings found in Bassan

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