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This year we celebrate one of Italy’s most important artistic figures, sculptor Antonio Canova, the main representative of sculptural neoclassicism in our country. Canova, who was born in Possagno, in the Treviso province of Veneto, in 1757, was known to his contemporaries as “the new Fidia” because of how much his work resembled in style and artis...

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Italy is marking the bicentenary of the death of Antonio Canova with a series of events in honour of the celebrated neoclassical sculptor who died in Venice on 13 October 1822. Born in 1757 in the Venetian Republic town of Possagno, Canova grew up largely in the care of his paternal grandfather Pasino, a stonemason who nurtured the young boy's prec...

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A perfect union between natural forms and ideal beauty, sculpted in the contemporary collective imagination, while belonging to an ancient time. Prosecco DOC chooses to celebrate the bicentenary of Antonio Canova's death with a tribute to his art and his love for dance, through the short film Genius Moves The World – presented on 6th September, on...

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A rediscovered Antonio Canova marble sculpture of Mary Magdalene is seen fetching up to $10 million when it heads to auction in July. Described by auction house Christies' as the Italian neoclassical sculptor's "lost masterpiece", "Maddalena Giacente" (Recumbent Magdalene) was commissioned by the Earl of Liverpool, then British prime minister, and...

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Last October, during the visit of the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella to the White House, President Donald Trump said the following words: "The United States and Italy are bound together by a shared cultural and political heritage dating back thousands of years to Ancient Rome.” An uproar broke out, because some people wanted to...

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Let’s take it from the end, when Cupid and Psyche finally got married with a rich wedding banquet to which all the gods were invited. It’s exactly when “The Three Graces” are featured while spreading the intoxicating scent of balsam around the heavenly feast. A common thread connects this and another famous carving by Canova: the same classical the...

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Antonio Canova was born in a small village near Venice. Although Greece was far away, he was still nicknamed “the new Phidias”, as he brought the classical era from 400 BC to 1700 AD, becoming the point man in neoclassicism, a cultural trend that will restore the glory of European art. The identification of classicism with Antonio Canova dates back...

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The story tells itself. In 1816, the legislature of the state of North Carolina authorized the commission of a monumental statue of George Washington – founding father, hero of the American Revolution, first president of the United States. From his retirement in Monticello, Thomas Jefferson – founding father, diplomat, third president of the United...

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Visitors to the Frick Collection will encounter an exhibition exalting the only work Antonio Canova (1757-1822) created for the United States — a full-length statue of George Washington, on view until September 23. “Thomas Jefferson, believing that no American sculptor was up to the task, recommended Canova, then one of Europe’s most celebrated art...

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The Frick Collection would like to show you George Washington as you’ve never seen him before. Think Roman god, with an expression of deep contemplation and an athletic physique, garbed in a flowing cloak and open-toed shoes. The image comes courtesy of the Italian neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822), whose rendering of the first U.S....

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