Canova : ideal heads

Author(s)

• Canova, Antonio
• Eustace, Katharine
• Ashmolean Museum
• Ashmolean Museum. The Chambers Hall Gallery

Bibliographic Information

Canova : ideal heads

[edited by Katharine Eustace]

Ashmolean Museum, c1997

Note

"Catalog of an exhibition held at the Chambers Hall Gallery, Ashmolean Museum, July 11-September 14, 1997"

Bibliography: p126-128

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The most important piece of sculpture yet purchased for the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is one of four Ideal Heads carved by Antonio Canova (1757-1822). The exhibition brings together the four heads for the first time since they left Canova's studio. This fully illustrated book can either be used as a catalogue for the display or a reference for all those interested in the work of Canova.

Table of Contents

• "Questa scabrosa missione" - Canova in Paris and London in 1815
• ideal beauty
• Canova, Chantrey and Cockerell - the Ashmolean Museum's early collection of casts from the antique
• "just a tiny bit of rouge upon the lips and cheeks" - Canova, colour and the classical ideal
• The Ashmolean - a fitting home for Canova's ideal head
• catalogue.

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Details

• NCID: BA86606974
• ISBN:
  • 1854440837
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: 128 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 730.92
• Subject Headings:
  • BLSH : Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822 -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Busts -- Italy -- Catalogs
  • FREE : 展覧会カタログ