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Wikipedia: Antonio Canova - The artist's life and works, images of key pieces and external links.
Wikipédia : Antonio Canova - Article de l'encyclopédie libre sur le sculpteur italien (1757-1822).
Artinvest2000: Antonio Canova - Vita, opere e percorso formativo del celeberrimo scultore neoclassico.
Posagnot.com: Antonio Canova - Presenta cenni biografici relativi allo scultore neoclassico nato a Possagno, in provincia di Treviso.
Canova, Antonio - "Cupidon et Psyché", 1792, fiche technique. Utpictura18.
Canova, Antonio - "Orphée", entre 1770 et 1775, fiche technique et analyse. Utpictura18
Canova, Antonio - "Hercule et Lichas", entre 1795 et 1815, fiche technique et analyse. Utpictura18.
Railibro.lacab.it - Antonio Canova - Cenni biografici e critici, immagini di alcune opere, bibliografia e link correlati.
Antonio Canova.it - Presenta informazioni sulle opere, sul metodo di lavoro e sulla collocazione nel panorama storico ed artistico dello scultore.
Antonio Canova - La vita, le opere e i link a risorse correlate.

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Antonio Canova - Antonio Canova (November 1, 1757 - October 13, 1822) was an Italian sculptor who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh. The epitome of the neoclassical sculptor, his work marked a return to classical refinement after the theatrical excesses of Baroque art.
Venus Victrix (Canova) - "Pauline Bonaparte as Venus Victrix" is a semi-nude life-size reclining neo-Classical portrait sculpture by the Italian sculptor Antonio Canova. Reviving the ancient Roman artistic traditions of portrayals of mortal individuals in the guise of the gods, and of the beautiful female form reclining on a couch (as most often seen in reclining portrayals of Hermaphroditi), it was commissioned by her husband Camillo Borghese and executed in ...
Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss - Antonio Canova's statue Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss, first commissioned in 1787, exemplifies the Neoclassical obsession with love and emotion. It represents the god Cupid in the height of love and tenderness, right after awakening the lifeless Psyche with a kiss, a scene excerpted from Lucius Apuleius' ...
Lorenzo Bartolini - Lorenzo Bartolini (7 January 1777 - 20 January 1850) was an Italian sculptor who infused his neoclassicism with a strain of sentimental piety and naturalistic detail, while he drew inspiration from the sculpture of the Florentine Renaissance rather than the overpowering influence of Antonio Canova that circumscribed his Florentine contemporaries.