Antonio Canova and the politics of patronage in revolutionary and Napoleonic europe
Editorial UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Espanya peninsular
- Editorial UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
- ISBN13 9780520212015
- ISBN10 0520212010
- Tipus Llibre
- Pàgines 271
- Any Edició 1997
- Encuadernació Tela
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Història De L'art. ManualsAntonio Canova and the politics of patronage in revolutionary and Napoleonic europe
Editorial UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Espanya peninsular
Detalls del llibre
The sculptor Antonio Canova was the most celebrated artist of a perilously protean and fractious era. In revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe, while other artists bent to the will of the political powers that commissioned their work, producing art in the service of the state, Canova managed to resist both threats and blandishments. Although he held strong opinions on the issues of his day, he avoided direct political or ideological engagement in his sculpture. Christopher M. S. Johns presents the first sustained study of Canova's career in relation to his patrons and contemporary politics. In it he enlarges our understanding of an artist whose work is crucial to the evaluation of European art and political history.