Venus, Back View, from Oeuvre de Canova
John H. Wrenn Memorial and Everett D. Graff endowment funds
Catalogue
- Year
- 1817
- Dimensions
- Plate: 54 × 40.8 cm (21 5/16 × 16 1/8 in.); Sheet: 85.8 × 62 cm (33 13/16 × 24 7/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Antonio Canova
Artist
Sculpture
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.
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- Antonio Canova
- Year
- 1817
- Dimensions
- Plate: 54 × 40.8 cm (21 5/16 × 16 1/8 in.); Sheet: 85.8 × 62 cm (33 13/16 × 24 7/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1817-004227
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
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