The Lute Music of Francesco Canova da Milano, 1497-1543: 2 volumes in one (Harvard Publications in Music)
Chains: David, Canova, and the Fall of the Public Hero in Postrevolutionary France
by Satish Padiyar
from Pennsylvania State University Press
One of Jacques-Louis David's most ambitious and darkly enigmatic paintings, Leonidas at the Pass of Thermopylae, hangs today in the Louvre, largely ignored. Focusing on this painting, Chains embarks on a discourse about the perception of the body, sexuality, and subjectivity in early nineteenth-century European art.
In addition to David, Chains explores the sculptural oeuvre of David's contemporary and rival, Italian sculptor Antonio Canova. Padiyar argues that, like David's postrevolutionary work, Canova's innovative sculptures embodied a new, distinctively modern type of subjectivity. The book aims to take a fresh view of the status of the male body in the work of these two late neoclassical artists by linking them in novel, sometimes unexpected ways with key figures of the late Enlightenment. In postrevolutionary Europe, philosophical and literary figures such as Immanuel Kant and the Marquis de Sade pushed the language of neoclassicism to its limits. Chains argues that such innovations produced a new, distinctively sexed, politicized, and aestheticized heroic male body that emerged as an incidental aftereffect of the French Revolution.
Earth and Fire: Italian Terracotta Sculpture from Donatello to Canova
by Carlo Milano
from Yale University Press
This book is an ambitious work that surveys the development of a major sculptural medium in Italy across four centuries. It is the first work of its kind to consider the varieties of fired clay sculpture, especially in the context of the sculptural process. Whenever possible, clay models have been juxtaposed with finished works in order to show changes between a sculptor's initial concept and the final product. Over eighty objects are considered, ranging from drawings and sketch models to enamelled terracottas and marbles. The entries are supplemented by a series of essays, addressing major aspects of clay sculpture from the Renaissance to Neo-classicism; there is also a survey of recent information gleaned from the conservation of terracotta sculpture.
Il Neoclassicismo in Italia: Da Tiepolo a Canova
Canovas del Castillo (Coleccion Biografias malaguenas)
Possagno and Canova =: Possagno et Canova = Possagno und Canova : The Temple, the gallery of plastercast, the surroundings = Le temple, la gypsotèque, ... (Gipsstatuengallerie), Die Ungebung [sic]
Canovas y su epoca: Actas del congreso, Madrid 20-22 noviembre de 1997 (Veintiuno coleccion)
Catalogo della mostra di disegni del Museo Civico di Bassano: Da Carpaccio a Canova (Cataloghi / Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Istituto di storia dellarte)
Antonio Canovas del Castillo: Historia, economia y politica
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