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.
Show lessRead more
Wikipedia4 stories
Related works from the web
Artworks not sourced from our partners' collections
Related works from the webPsyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss (1793)
pro.boutiquesdemusees.fr
Print Antonio Canova - Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss, 1793 ...
Venus Italica (1819)
www.wikiart.org
Venus Italica, 1819 - Antonio Canova - WikiArt.org
Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker (1806)
www.museocanova.it
Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker - Museo Gypsotheca Antonio ...
Tomb of Pope Clement XIV
en.wikipedia.org
Tomb of Pope Clement XIV - Wikipedia
Canova Lions Statue (1792)
en.wikipedia.org
Canova Lions - Wikipedia
Standing Psyche and Love
fr.wikipedia.org
L'Amour et Psyché debout — Wikipédia
Theseus and Centaur by Antonio Canova (1805)
www.museocanova.it
Theseus Defeating the Centaur - Museo Gypsotheca Antonio Canova
Endymion sleeping
www.chatsworth.org
The Sleeping Endymion - Chatsworth
“I have read that the ancients, when they had produced a sound, used to modulate it, heightening and lowering its pitch without departing from the rules of harmony. So must the artist do in working at the nude.”
Antonio Canova
Nov 1, 1757 - Oct 13, 1822