24 Antonio Canova, Hercules and Lichas, 1795–1815, marble, height...

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TitleHercules and Lichas

Creator nameCanova, Antonio

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Creator roleSculptor

Creation date1795–1815

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsMarble

DimensionsHeight 131 7/8 in. (335 cm)

LocationGalleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderne, Rome

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsMarble sculptureClassical influencesNude in art

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I. Neoclassicism: Some Problems of Definition

Robert Rosenblum

Transformations in Late Eighteenth-Century Art

~IN HISTORIES of painting, the most familiar demonstration of that new mid eighteenth...

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Robert Rosenblum

PublisherPrinceton University Press

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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00288.1

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Chapter subject tags:Neoclassicism (Art)Painting, French--18th centuryDavid, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825Vien, Joseph-Marie, 1716-1809Flaxman, John, 1755-1826Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822Painting, British--18th centuryKauffmann, Angelica, 1741-1807

1. Classical Figures

Alex Potts

The Sculptural Imagination: Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist

A new understanding of the distinction between painting and sculpture began to emerge in the second half of the eighteenth century. The real issue here is not the distinction as such. Sculpture had always been thought of as different, if only because its execution required different skills, it was made of different materials and existed as solid thing rather than painted surface. In art theory, where painting and sculpture were seen to be grounded in a common mastery of drawing or dessin or …

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Alex Potts

PublisherYale University Press

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Chapter subject tags:Sculpture, Classical--AppreciationReynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792Falconet, Etienne, 1716-1791Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822Sculpture, Modern--19th centurySculpture, Modern--18th century

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