Antonio Canova

Italian, 1757 - 1822

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Italian Neoclassical sculptor (1757–1822)

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, The Adoration of the Shepherds, 1735/1740, pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper (backed with eighteenth century paper), Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1982.39.1

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1735/1740 · pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper (backed with eighteenth century paper) ·  Accession ID  1982.39.1

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Head of a Magician, c. 1760, pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper (still mounted on original Tiepolo album page), Gift of Mrs. Christian Aall, 1998.110.1

Head of a Magician

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · c. 1760 · pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper (still mounted on original Tiepolo album page) ·  Accession ID  1998.110.1

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, The Holy Family, 1754/1762, pen and brown ink with gray-brown wash on cream laid paper, Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2007.111.42

The Holy Family

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1754/1762 · pen and brown ink with gray-brown wash on cream laid paper ·  Accession ID  2007.111.42

Bibliography

1976

  • Pavanello, Giuseppe, and Mario Praz. L'opera completa di Canova. Milan, 1976.

1983

  • Licht, Fred, and David Finn. Canova. New York, 1983.

1992

  • Pavanello, Giuseppe, and Giandomenico Romanelli, eds. Antonio Canova. Exh. cat. Museo Civico Correr, Venice; Gipsoteca, Possagno. Venice, 1992.

  • de Benedetti, E. "Canova." In Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon: die bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker. Edited by Günter Meissner. 83+ vols. Munich and Leipzig, 1983+: 16(1997):173-176.

1996

  • Pavanello, Giuseppe. "Antonio Canova." In The Dictionary of Art. Edited by Jane Turner. 34 vols. New York and London, 1996: 5:625-633.

2000

  • Butler, Ruth, and Suzanne Glover Lindsay, with Alison Luchs, Douglas Lewis, Cynthia J. Mills, and Jeffrey Weidman. European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2000: 56-58.