Word: canova
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Canova." Professor Post. New Fogg Small Lecture Room...
...limited, for the most part, to small and decorative bronzes. There was the usual abundance of birdbaths and fountain figurines. Albert Stewart's Polar Bear got the Widener Memorial Medal, which it well deserved. Katharine W. Lane's heavy, proud horse was small but complete in its effect, and Canova would have liked C. P. Jennewein's Coral...
...Canova, Socialist member of the National Council, wrote in his newspaper Volkswacht that God is a scoundrel. For that, a court of justice fined him 200 francs. In his defense, M. Canova said that, as there was no God, he could not be guilty of blasphemy against...
...Italy, and find the statue of George Washington which was modeled by Antonio Canova. This Canova was born on Nov. 1, 1757, at Passagno, an obscure village situated amid the recesses of the hills of Asolo, where these form the last undulations of the Venetian Alps as they subside into the plains of Treviso. He was the son of a long line of makers of local gravestones, but rose to fame and munificence as one of those who instituted the classical revival of Italian Art. He made statues of Palamedes, of Napoleon, of Hebe, of Hercules and also of George...
...yester-year go fast. Rodin (died 1921) was only a sentimental impressionist in sculpture, according to the critics of insurgence. The great names of today were unknown a decade ago. The post-impressionist sculptors who have received the critical accolade ? men whose work would be incomprehensible to a Canova or a Thorwaldsen ? are Aristide Maillol, whom Clive Bell, English oracle of modernism, Sheldon Cheney and many others consider the greatest sculptor alive; Bourdelle and Gaudier, other Frenchmen; Jacob Epstein (an American, by the way) and Eric Gill, an Englishman; Grancusi, Bohemian carver of geometrical solids; Mestrovic, the Serbian...