Canova's George Washington

Examines a little-known masterpiece by the celebrated Italian sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822): the statue of George Washington for the North Carolina State House.

List of contents

Director's Foreword

Preface and Acknowledgments

"The Boast and Pride of North America"-Antonio Canova's George Washington by Xavier F. Salomon

The Classical Conception of Antonio Canova by Mario Guderzo

Jefferson, Italy, and Palladio by Guido Beltramini

Appendix

Bibliography

Index

Photography Credits

About the author

Xavier F. Salomon is Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator of The Frick Collection. He is a noted scholar of Paolo Veronese and curated the monographic exhibition on the artist at the National Gallery, London (March-June 2014). At the Frick, he has recently curated Cagnacci's Repentant Magdalene: An Italian Baroque Masterpiece from the Norton Simon Museum (2016-17). Salomon received his Ph.D. on the patronage of Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini from the Courtauld Institute of Art. He has published in Apollo, The Burlington Magazine, Master Drawings, The Medal, The Art Newspaper, Journal of the History of Collections, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal. Guido Beltramini is the director of the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio, Vicenza. Mario Guderzo is the director of the Antonio Canova Museum, Possagno.

Summary

An engaging account of a sculpture once considered the "boast and pride of North America"

Product details

• Authors: Xavier Salomon, Xavier F Salomon, Xavier F. Salomon, Salomon Xavier
• Publisher: Pan macmillan Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781911282174
• ISBN: 978-1-911282-17-4
• Illustrations: 75 colour
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; USA, ART / Sculpture & Installation, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, sculpture, c 1800 to c 1900, History of Art, United States of America, USA, Romanticism, Individual artists, art monographs, History of the Americas, Art & design styles: Romanticism, Early 19th century c 1800 to c 1850, ART / History / European / Romanticism