[CAS AH 287] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (126 pages long!)

• School: Boston University
• Department: History of Art & Architecture
• Course: CAS AH 287
• Professor: Jonathan Ribner

Document Summary

Antonio canova - arguably the greatest exponent of neoclassical sculpture - was famous for his marble sculptures of delicate nudes. Working after the excesses of the baroque style, he carved a niche for himself in the world of neoclassical art. Called "the supreme minister of beauty" and "a unique and truly divine man" by contemporaries, His international reputation as one of the greatest neoclassical sculptors clearly surpassed that of john flaxman and john gibson. His most famous works include apollo crowning himself (1781, j paul getty museum, los. Angeles), theseus and the minotaur (1781, victoria and albert museum), cupid and psyche (1786-93, louvre, paris), and paolina bonaparte borghese as venus victorious (1808, rome, Although later critics have claimed that canova"s classicism led to a fatal loss of artistic vitality, his contemporaries took a more high-minded view, praising him for his superlative feel for.