1st Edition
Exhibiting Antonio Canova Display and the Transformation of Sculptural Theory
By Christina Ferando
Copyright 2023
294 Pages
by
Routledge
294 Pages
by
Routledge
294 Pages
by
Routledge
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Exhibiting Antonio Canova: Display and the Transformation of Sculptural Theory argues that the display of Canova’s sculptures in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries acted as a catalyst for discourse across a broad range of subjects. By enshrining his marble figures alongside plaster casts of ancient works, bathing them in candlelight, staining and waxing their surfaces, and even... Read more
List of Illustrations, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Canova on Display, Chapter One. Imagining Sculptural Practice, Chapter Two. Reevaluating Ancients and Moderns, Chapter Three. Anatomizing the Female Nude, Chapter Four. Challenging the Supremacy of Painting, Chapter Five. Defining Modern Sculpture, Conclusion. Aftereffects, Bibliography, Index.
Biography
Christina Ferando is currently the Dean of Jonathan Edwards College and Lecturer in the Department of History of Art at Yale University.
