#Antonio Canova

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Theseus and the Minotaur

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Antonio Canova: Psyche Revived by the Kiss of Love (1789)

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Antonio Canova (1757 - 1822)

[asoftepiloguemylove]

I TALK TO GOD, BUT THE SKY IS EMPTY; ABOUT GOD

Keaton St. James (@boykeats) Salvation // pinterest // Lisa Marie Basile Andalucia // Sean Glatch (via @sicknessinmotion) // "Shiizakana," Hannibal (2013-2015) dir. Michael Rymer // Antonio Canova Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss (via @moonstoast) // Ethel Cain Sun Bleached Flies // José Saramago (tr. Margaret Jull Costa) Cain (via @morepeachyogurt) // Leila Chatti Portrait of the Illness as Nightmare

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Maddalena Giacente (Recumbent Magdalene)

Sculpture by Antonio Canova

marble, 1819-22

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The Three Graces (1813-1816) by Antonio Canova (Italian, 1757-1822), marble, h: 1.8 m, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

[oliverscarlin]

Antonio Canova - The Three Graces (1814)

[cataclysmictide]

I Love You, That's All

The Louvre - Lorde/Edgar Degas/The Creation of Adam - Michelangelo/Art Heist, Baby! - @otrtbs /The Gathering Storm - Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky/The Last Great American Dynasty - Taylor Swift/The Louvre - Lorde/Unknown/Art Heist, Baby! - Otrtbs/New Year's Day - Taylor Swift/Margaret - Lana Del Rey/Unknown/Art Heist, Baby! - Otrtbs/New Year's Day - Taylor Swift/Ships in a Storm - Ludolf Bakhuizen/Interior with the Artist's Wife Emilie Heise -  Carl Holsøe/Art Heist, Baby! - Otrtbs/Half Return - Adrianne Lenker/Art Heist, Baby! - Otrtbs/My Tears Ricochet - Taylor Swift/Art Heist, Baby! - Otrtbs/Fourth of July - Sufjan Stevens/Unknown/Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss -  Antonio Canova/Bigger Than The Whole Sky - Taylor Swift/Love in the Heart of Everything; The Correspondence between Vladimir Mayakovsky & Lili Brik/Art Heist, Baby! - Otrtbs

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The Vestal, Antonio Canova, ca. 1819-23

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Antonio Canova (1757 - 1822)

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Antonio Canova (Italian, 1757-1822) Cupid and Psyche, 1794 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[empirearchives]

“What Napoleon criticised in the statue could perhaps be summed up in one thing: his uneasiness at the sight of his own nudity. And it was precisely his nudity that was felt to be problematic, even shocking. But how did Canova come to have the odd idea of representing Napoleon as a nude divinity?”

— Valérie Huet, Napoleon I: A New Augustus?

The nude statue of Napoleon in question:

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Antonio Canova: Monument to the Royal Stuarts (1819)

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Naiade, Antonio Canova, 1820

[miffy-junot]

Napoleon as Mars the peacemaker by Antonio Canova

when I was at Apsley House on Saturday I had the wonderful experience of getting to see this beautiful statue in person! It truly is magnificent, and photos cannot express the effect it has.

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Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss

Antonio Canova

1793.