Italian Neoclassical Sculptor, 1757-1822 Italian sculptor, painter, draughtsman and architect. He was the most innovative and widely acclaimed sculptor of NEO-CLASSICISM. His development during the 1780s of a new style of revolutionary severity and idealistic purity led many of his contemporaries to prefer his ideal sculptures to such previously universally admired Antique statues as the Medici Venus and the Farnese Hercules, thus greatly increasing the prestige of 'modern' sculpture. He was also much in demand as a portrait sculptor.  Related Paintings of Antonio Canova :. | Recreation by our Gallery | The Three Graces Dancing | Marble | Recreation by our Gallery | Tomb of Pope Clement XIII |
Related Artists:
Walter Moras
painted Markisches Dorf in 1888
Mulhaupt, Frederick John
American, 1871-1938
Hamilton Hamiltyon
1847-1928