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Endymion endormi /Sleeping Endymion[1819]
Housed: Grand Palais, Paris

Sculptor: Antonio Canova

Photographer:Christian Choret
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Antonio Canova / Maddalena Penitente

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by Antonio Canova

“Reclining Naiad” by Antonio Canova (Italy, 1757-1822). Canova began the sculpture near the end of his life, in 1819. It was completed by his assistants in 1824. It is now in Gallery 515 in The Met.

Venus and Paris

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Antonio Canova via torart_italy

Antonio Canova. Wrestlers, terracotta. 1775.

Theseus and the Centaur (1804-19)

Antonio Canova (b. 1757, Possagno, d. 1822, Venezia)

Theseus’s best friend was Pirithous, prince of the Lapiths. Pirithous had heard stories of Theseus’s courage and strength in battle but wanted proof, so he rustled Theseus’s herd of cattle and drove it from Marathon, and Theseus set out in pursuit. Pirithous took up his arms and the pair met to do battle, but were so impressed with each other they took an oath of friendship and joined the hunt for the Calydonian Boar. In Iliad I, Nestor numbers Pirithous and Theseus “of heroic fame” among an earlier generation of heroes of his youth, “the strongest men that Earth has bred, the strongest men against the strongest enemies, a savage mountain-dwelling tribe whom they utterly destroyed."  Later, Pirithous was preparing to marry Hippodamia. The centaurs were guests at the wedding feast, but got drunk and tried to abduct the women, including Hippodamia. The Lapiths won the ensuing battle.

In Ovid’s Metamorphoses Theseus fights against and kills Eurytus, the "fiercest of all the fierce centaurs” at the wedding of Pirithous and Hippodamia. Hovever Theseus fights several centaurs in his life, and Eurytius is not beaten with a club in Ovid’s tale. Thus Canova could have found inspiration in a different source.

Marble, height 340 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Eternal Echo

volavano sempre abbracciati sulle crepe della città

sleeping

Antonio Canova (1757 - 1822)

1. Venus Italica
2. Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss
3. Venus and Adonis
4. Theseus and the Minotaur
5. The Three Graces
6. Venus Victrix

“REPITELO” (Repeat it) - Raul Martinetto.

Antonio Canova: Venus Victrix, 1808.

The statue depicting Pauline Bonaparte as “Venus Victrix” (Venus the Conqueror) was commissioned by her husband, Prince Camillo Borghese, shortly after the couple arrived in Rome in 1804… (Read more)

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Antonio Canova,
Cupid & Psyche, 1788-1793

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Venus Itálica por Ale Funk Fotografias