0131Aphrodite_Canova7

0131Aphrodite_Canova7

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Antonio Canova, "Paolina BorgheseBonaparte as Venus Victorious," marble sculpture, 1804/1808; Galleria Borghese, Rome, inv. 54.

Johns, Christopher. "Portrait Mythology: Antonio Canova's portraits of the Bonapartes," Eighteeenth Century Studies 28 (1994)

---. Antonio Canova and the Politics of Patronage in Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998.

O'Brien, David. "Antonio Canova's Napoleon as Peacemaker and the Limits of Imperial Portraiture," French History 18 (2004) 364.

Marble sculpture of a reclining semi-nude woman, partially draped, holding an apple.

Note: A headless plaster model is at the Gipsoteca Canoviana in Possagno, no. 191.

G. Pavanello, L'Opera completa del Canova. intr. by Mario Paz. Classici del'Arte. Milan: Rizzoli, 1976.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University and other contexts.
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