Author: Canova, Antonio
Title: Antonio Canova
Description: Venice, Marsilio, 1992. Paperback. Glossy white wraps with color illustration and black lettering; (xx), 405 pp; illustrated throughout in bw and color. Text in Italian. "Exhibition held at the Correr Museum, Venice, and the Gipsoteca, Possagno, 22 March-30 September, 1992"--Page [vii]. Contents: A European adventure. The visible expression of the soul / Giulio Carlo Argan ; An Enlish paradox / Agostino Lombardo ; Canova, Goethe and thereabouts / Paolo Chiarini ; Ambassador extraordinaire / Carlo Pietrangeli ; Canova, restoration Europe and the Russia of Alexander I / Giuliano Briganti ; The unending enchantment / Roberto Calasso -- An artist and his world. Canova's sculptural practice / Hugh Honour ; The Venetian Canova / Giuseppe Pavanello ; A yearning for home / Giandomenico Romanelli ; Reflections on Canova and the art of antiquity / Irene Favaretto ; Grace and the Graces / Gianni Venturi ; A myth in his lifetime / Fernando Mazzocca -- Catalogue of exhibited works. Portraits of Canova ; Drawings ; Bozzetti and models ; Paintings ; Reliefs ; Sculpture ; Busts ; Ideal heads -- Antonio Canova at Possagno. Early days in the Canova revival / Elena Bassi ; The Tempio / Giandomenico Romanelli ; A tomb for Canova / Paolo Mariuz ; The Gipsoteca / Giuseppe Pavanello ; The Gipsoteca in the twentieth century / Gabriella Delfini Filippi ; Canova and Possagno / Filippa M. Aliberti Gaudioso ; The Tempio works -- Chronology. VG- (Light shelfwear and scuffing, black marker line on bottom of text block, binding is tight, pages are clean and clear) .

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