He was an Italian sculptor and painter. Antonio Canova. He was the greatest exponent of Neoclassicism in sculpture, and is famous - among others - for one of his extraordinary works: Cupid and Psyche.
Antonio Canova's works are spread all over the world: they can be found in the Louvre in Paris, in the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. And then to Berlin, kyiv, Munich, Bremen, Geneva, Vienna. And in Italy? Where should you go if you want to admire his extraordinary masterpieces?
From north to south of the country, there are various museums that house the work of Antonio Canova. In Veneto, for example, there are two possibilities: i Civic museums in the Eremitani of Padua y Correr Museum of Venice. The first, located in the cloisters of the former convent of the hermit friars, houses an art gallery with an unmissable collection of art: there are Giotto's cross, works by Bellini, Giorgione and Titian. And there he is, precisely, Antonio Canova. The Correr Museum, on the other hand, is one of the most representative Venetian museums, and dedicates an entire room to Canova: here are preserved autograph drawings of the sculptor, some sculptures but, above all, in the center of the Sala delle Vedute. it is possible to admire the Daedalus marble group ero Ica (1777-79), masterpiece of Venetian youth by Antonio Canova.
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A Genoa, il White Palace (in the heart of the historic center), houses the Penitent Magdalene in marble and gilded bronze, while in Florence the Palatine Gallery (Inside the Pitti Palace, part – together with the Boboli Garden – of the Uffizi Galleries) houses the extraordinary Italian Venus, which Canova created as compensation for the transfer to France of the Venus de' Medici, stolen by the Napoleons.
To admire the other works of the sculptor, it is necessary to go to Rome. Here are his funerary monuments (inside the Basilica of the Holy Apostles and St. Peter's Basilica), and there is the extraordinary Hercules and Lichas (in the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art), taken from ancient poems and depicting Hercules who, maddened by the pain caused by the tunic soaked in the poisoned blood of the centaur Nessus, threw the young Lichas into the air, who had given away by order of Deianira. and then there Paolina Borghese Bonaparte as Venus Victrix Inside the Borghese Gallery.
An extraordinary trip, up and down Italy. To meet one of our most famous artists.
