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 ANTONIO CANOVA( Possagno, Treviso, 1757 - Venice 1822)
After an apprenticeship in the Venetian workshop of Giuseppe Bernardi, Canova was in Rome in 1799. A young artist who frequented distinguished intellectual circles - Quatremère de Quincy and Gavin Hamilton, archaeologists and art critics, were his friends - he met with success already in 1787, when his Funerary Monument to Clement XIV was inaugurated in the Basilica dei Santi Apostoli in Rome. From this time on, the production of works of mythological subject was interwoven, in the artist's career, with that of funerary monuments. The hint of sensuality in the former won him the admiration of his contemporaries, while the latter provided occasions for civic commemoration or solemn elegy. At the peak of his fame in the Napoleonic era, Canova was assigned discreet diplomatic and cultural functions at the downfall of Napoleon. In 1815 he journeyed to London to see the marbles from the Parthenon.
(From "Italian Art" Edited by Gloria Fossi, Giunti).
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