Canova's George Washington
type: CreativeWork
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  alternate name: Artists' preparatory studies--Exhibitions--Italy
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310120800
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31018649
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320127062
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320131306
abstract: Canova was a prolific artist who received countless prestigious commissions--only one, however, from the United States. This was the commission from the North Carolina State House in Raleigh for a posthumous statue of George Washington. The fascinating story of Thomas Jefferson's role in urging the selection of Canova and determining key aspects of the statue, of the making and shipping of the statue to the United Sates, of its tragic destruction ten years later and its eventual replacement with the original plaster model, and later replacement with a marble reproduction by Romano Vio is a tale well told by Xavier F. Salomon, Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at the Frick, together with Mario Guderzo, Director of the Gypsotheca e Museo Antonio Canova, and Guido Beltramini, Director of the Palladio Museum in Vicenza.
author: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31045485
author: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/3108420
author: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31099977
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31138092
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31142183
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31099977
language: eng
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300195187
  text: Director's foreword -- Preface and acknowledgments -- "The Boast and Pride of North America": Antonio Canova's George Washington / by Xavier F. Salomon -- The Classical conception of Antonio Canova / by Mario Guderzo -- Jefferson, Italy, and Palladio / by Guido Beltramini -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301286611

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