!!!Canova, Antonio

b. Possagno (Italy), Nov. 1, 1757, 
d. Venice (Italy), Oct. 13, 1822, Italian Romantic classicist sculptor 
and model of Viennese Classicism. Created the funerary monument to 
Archduchess  Maria Christina in the Augustinian Church, Vienna (1805) 
and the group "Theseus fighting the Centaurs" commissioned by Napoleon 
and later acquired by Emperor Franz I (staircase of the 
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).

!Literature
A. C., exhibition catalogue, Museo Correr, Venice 
1992.



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