The three Graces / Antonio Canova ; [texts by] Timothy Clifford ... [et al.]
By: Canova, Antonio.
Contributor(s): Clifford, Timothy
| Honour, Hugh | Kenworthy-Browne, J. A | Brown, Iain Gordon | Weston-Lewis, Aidan | National Gallery of Scotland.
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BookPublisher: Edinburgh : National Gallery of Scotland, 1995Description: 112 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.ISBN: 0903598590.Subject(s): Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822 Three graces -- Exhibitions | Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822 Three graces | Neoclassicism (Art) -- Exhibitions | Graces, The, in artDDC classification: 730.92 CAN
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 730.92 CAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00064319 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Antonio Canova (1757-1822) suffers not only from having been overlooked, but from the superabundance of praise, indeed outright worship that was meted out to him by his contemporaries and the majority of subsequent fellow-sculptors, connoiseurs, and aesthetics throughout the nineteenth century. Canova was for them the quintessential sculptor and in all respects, until perhaps the maturity of Rodin, the role model of all aspiring sculptors. This catalogue was published to accompany the first time The Three Graces had been shown in Scotland. The Three Graces was executed in 1815-17 for the 6th Duke of Bedford for Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire. SELLING POINTS: Includes a full catalogue of exhibits Features three comprehensive, informative essays 37 colour and 67 b/w illustrations
Exhibition held at the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, Aug. 9 to Oct. 8, 1995.
Includes bibliographical references.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Patrick Hugh Honour was born in Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom on September 26, 1927. He received a bachelor's degree in 18th-century English literature from St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. In the mid-1950's, he started writing and editing with John Fleming. For Penguin Books, they edited the series Style and Civilization. They also edited two more series for Penguin: Architect and Society and Art in Context. Together they wrote The Visual Arts: A History, The Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts, and The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture with Nikolaus Pevsner.Honour wrote several books on his own including Horace Walpole, Chinoiserie: A Vision of Cathay, The Companion Guide to Venice, Romanticism, The Image of the Black in Western Art: From the American Revolution to World War I, and The Venetian Hours of Henry James, Whistler, and Sargent. Honour organized the traveling exhibition The European Vision of America for the United States Bicentennial in 1976. As a companion to the exhibition, he wrote The New Golden Land: European Images of America from the Discoveries to the Present Time. He died on May 19, 2016 at the 88.
(Bowker Author Biography)