Xavier F Salomon

Canova's George Washington

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines a little-known masterpiece by the celebrated Italian sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822): the statue of George Washington for the North Carolina State House.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Giles
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 284mm x 254mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 1451g
• ISBN-13: 9781911282174
• ISBN-10: 1911282174
• Artikelnr.: 48699569

Autorenporträt

Xavier F. Salomon is Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator of The Frick Collection. He is a noted scholar of Paolo Veronese and curated the monographic exhibition on the artist at the National Gallery, London (March-June 2014). At the Frick, he has recently curated Cagnacci's Repentant Magdalene: An Italian Baroque Masterpiece from the Norton Simon Museum (2016-17). Salomon received his Ph.D. on the patronage of Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini from the Courtauld Institute of Art. He has published in Apollo, The Burlington Magazine, Master Drawings, The Medal, The Art Newspaper, Journal of the History of Collections, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal. Guido Beltramini is the director of the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio, Vicenza. Mario Guderzo is the director of the Antonio Canova Museum, Possagno.

Inhaltsangabe

Director's Foreword
1. Preface and Acknowledgments
2. "The Boast and Pride of North America"-Antonio Canova's George Washington
by Xavier F. Salomon
3. The Classical Conception of Antonio Canova by Mario Guderzo
4. Jefferson, Italy, and Palladio by Guido Beltramini
5. Appendix
6. Bibliography
7. Index
8. Photography Credits