SCULPTOR

Antonio Canova

1757 - 1822

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Antonio Canova (Italian pronunciation: [anˈtɔːnjo kaˈnɔːva]; 1 November 1757 – 13 October 1822) was an Italian Neoclassical sculptor, famous for his marble sculptures. Often regarded as the greatest of the Neoclassical artists, his sculpture was inspired by the Baroque and the classical revival, and has been characterised as having avoided the melodramatics of the former, and the cold artificiality of the latter. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Antonio Canova is the 8th most popular sculptor (up from 11th in 2019), the 396th most popular biography from Italy (down from 364th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Italian Sculptor.

Antonio Canova is most famous for his marble sculptures.

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Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Antonio Canova ranks 8 out of 258. Before him are Phidias, Praxiteles, Camille Claudel, Benvenuto Cellini, Polykleitos, and Lorenzo Ghiberti. After him are Lysippos, Alberto Giacometti, Constantin Brâncuși, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Louise Bourgeois, and Giambologna.

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Among people born in 1757, Antonio Canova ranks 4. Before him are Charles X of France, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, and William Blake. After him are Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Pierre Augereau, Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Robert Smith, Jacques Hébert, Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf, Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Rigas Feraios. Among people deceased in 1822, Antonio Canova ranks 4. Before him are William Herschel, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Ali Pasha of Ioannina. After him are Percy Bysshe Shelley, Claude Louis Berthollet, Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, René Just Haüy, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Giovanni Battista Venturi, and Johann Matthäus Bechstein.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Antonio Canova ranks 396 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope John I (470), Claudio Abbado (1933), Pope John IX (850), Charles IV of Spain (1748), Pope Mark (290), and Gallienus (218). After him are Pope Stephen IV (770), Gaius Octavius (-100), Pope Sergius I (650), Filippo Lippi (1406), Guido Reni (1575), and Nero Claudius Drusus (-38).

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Among SCULPTORS In Italy

Among sculptors born in Italy, Antonio Canova ranks 3. Before him are Benvenuto Cellini (1500), and Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378). After him are Jacopo Sansovino (1486), Nicola Pisano (1225), Luca della Robbia (1399), Andrea Pisano (1290), Alessandro Algardi (1595), Giovanni Pisano (1248), Jacopo della Quercia (1374), Andrea della Robbia (1435), and Bonanno Pisano (1150).

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