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Reclining Naiad
Antonio Canova (Italian, Possagno 1757–1822 Venice)
Date:1819–24.
Antonio Canova was the most famous sculptor in Europe when he created this work towards the end of his life in 1820-1823. Canova was a favorite of Napoleon, the emperor of France. He won commissions from aristocratic patrons in Italy and in England.
Canova’s work embodied the ideals of neoclassical thinkers and artists. They looked back to the sculpture of Greece and Rome, much of which had recently been discovered in the eighteenth-century excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum. The idealized woman in this statue is a fresh water nymph – a “naiad” in Greek mythology – and she is intended to evoke comparisons with antique sculpture. Marble was the medium that Greek and Roman sculptors favored; thus marble was the medium used by eighteenth and nineteenth century neoclassical sculptors.
Neoclassical art, which became the predominant style in the mid-eighteenth century, was a reaction to the previous century’s baroque art, which had been dramatic, complex and opulent. Neoclassical art was simple, graceful and relatively plain. And the nude, which had been banished from Western art in the middle ages, had actually made a return in the fifteenth century, when artists first began to learn about Greek and Roman art. That classical art had essentially been lost for hundreds of years.
As the famous twentieth-century art critic Bernard Berenson said, “The nude is the most absorbing problem of classic art at all times. Not only is it the best vehicle for all that in art is directly life-confirming and life-enhancing, but it is itself the most significant object in the human world.”
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Date:1819–24.
Antonio Canova was the most famous sculptor in Europe when he created this work towards the end of his life in 1820-1823. Canova was a favorite of Napoleon, the emperor of France. He won commissions from aristocratic patrons in Italy and in England.
Canova’s work embodied the ideals of neoclassical thinkers and artists. They looked back to the sculpture of Greece and Rome, much of which had recently been discovered in the eighteenth-century excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum. The idealized woman in this statue is a fresh water nymph – a “naiad” in Greek mythology – and she is intended to evoke comparisons with antique sculpture. Marble was the medium that Greek and Roman sculptors favored; thus marble was the medium used by eighteenth and nineteenth century neoclassical sculptors.
Neoclassical art, which became the predominant style in the mid-eighteenth century, was a reaction to the previous century’s baroque art, which had been dramatic, complex and opulent. Neoclassical art was simple, graceful and relatively plain. And the nude, which had been banished from Western art in the middle ages, had actually made a return in the fifteenth century, when artists first began to learn about Greek and Roman art. That classical art had essentially been lost for hundreds of years.
As the famous twentieth-century art critic Bernard Berenson said, “The nude is the most absorbing problem of classic art at all times. Not only is it the best vehicle for all that in art is directly life-confirming and life-enhancing, but it is itself the most significant object in the human world.”
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