Antonio Kanova is considered one of the most famous Italian sculptors who lived in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when he was born on the first of November 1757 AD, and left our world on October 13, 1822 and was famous for its sculptures of marble and bare statues.
Kanova went at the age of eleventh to work with the famous sculptor Giuseppe Bernardi called Toreti, who lived in Bagno and in the same year 1768 Bernardi transferred his studio from Paniano County to Venice, and Kanova went with him where he helped the boy his master, and carried out a few works alone and as it was Unent at the time, he studied classic art.
In 1775 AD, Kanova established his studio in Venice, and in 1779 he carved the Didalus and Icarus who was commissioned by Bisani, the representative of the Republic in the Republic of Venice, and it was the first important work of Canova where he used the Rococo style and the forms were considered very realistic that the sculptor was accused of making molds Gypsum is a living models.
Kanova was in Rome in 1779 and 1780, where he met prominent artists in that period, including the painter and Scottish merchant Javin Hamilton, who directed Kanova’s studies towards a deeper understanding of artifacts, he visited Kanova Napoli and ancient archaeological sites in Heracolanium, Pompei and Pistom and briefly returned to the Venice But in 1781 he returned again to Rome, where he spent most of his life and became an active and influential figure in the city’s artistic life and was always ready to help young artists and find sponsors for them.
Kanova’s works in several museums around the world, including the American Metropolitan Museum, in addition to Italian museums.
The statue
Pressius statue with Midoza.
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