#canova

[bambooale]

《Chinese Cheongsam》

Denon：For art and eternity, Your Majesty must take off your pants today.

Canova：Long sleeves cannot show the graceful lines of Your Majesty's arms; I must rescue you!

Napoleon：Rebelled!

[buendischerwaldgang]

Museo Canova, Possagno, Italy

[angelosand]

Nel dipinto 🖼️, Autoritratto di Antonio Canova, 1792 🎨

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[artschoolglasses]

Head of Medusa, Studio of Antonio Canova, 1806-7

From the Met Museum

[seasons-in-hell]

•Year: Sculpture - Artist

• 1411: Saint John the Evangelist - Donatello

• 1499: Pietà - Michelangelo

• 1515: Moses - Michelangelo

• 1599: Hercules and the Centaur Nessus - Giambologna

• 1624: David - Gian Lorenzo Bernini

• 1752: Modesty - Antonio Corradini

• 1801: Perseus with the Head of Medusa - Antonio Canova

• 1850: The Veiled Virgin - Giovanni Strazza

• 1880: Undine Rising from the Waters - Chauncey Ives

[empirearchives]

“What Napoleon criticised in the statue could perhaps be summed up in one thing: his uneasiness at the sight of his own nudity. And it was precisely his nudity that was felt to be problematic, even shocking. But how did Canova come to have the odd idea of representing Napoleon as a nude divinity?”

— Valérie Huet, Napoleon I: A New Augustus?

The nude statue of Napoleon in question:

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Per te by Canova