CAS AH 287 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bartolomeo Cavaceppi, Museo Correr, Antonio Canova
13 Sep 2016
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Antonio canova - arguably the greatest exponent of neoclassical sculpture - was famous for his marble sculptures of delicate nudes. Working after the excesses of the baroque style, he carved a niche for himself in the world of neoclassical art. Called "the supreme minister of beauty" and "a unique and truly divine man" by contemporaries, His international reputation as one of the greatest neoclassical sculptors clearly surpassed that of john flaxman and john gibson. His most famous works include apollo crowning himself (1781, j paul getty museum, los. Angeles), theseus and the minotaur (1781, victoria and albert museum), cupid and psyche (1786-93, louvre, paris), and paolina bonaparte borghese as venus victorious (1808, rome, Although later critics have claimed that canova"s classicism led to a fatal loss of artistic vitality, his contemporaries took a more high-minded view, praising him for his superlative feel for.
