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A derradeira grande composição heroica de Canova foi o grupo de Teseu vencendo o centauro (1805-1819), uma de suas imagens mais violentas. Fora encomendada por Napoleão com o objetivo de instalá-la em Milão, mas foi adquirida pelo imperador austríaco e levada para Viena.
Title: Theseus and the Minotaur. Creator: Antonio Canova. Date: 1781. Date Created: 1781/1783. Medium: plaster. The Venetian ambassador in Rome, Girolamo Zulian, confident in the abilities of...
Theseus and the Minotaur is a 1781-1782 white marble sculpture by Antonio Canova, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, which bought it in 1962. The sculpture in Room 22 of the V&A. The work was commissioned by Girolamo Zulian, Venetian ambassador to Rome and one of Canova's patrons, who also gave him the marble block for ...
Antonio Canova. Theseus and the Minotaur. 1781. Plaster. Location. Gypsotheca, Nineteenth century wing. Theseus is sitting on the minotaur in a triumphant act, he is holding the club that helped him put the beast down. The minotaur is laying, in an unnatural pose, exsanguinated, with a human body and the head of a torus.
Em 1781, após estabelecer seu estúdio em Roma, Canova foi contratado para esculpir Teseu e o Minotauro. A calma serenidade da figura retratada após sua batalha com o minotauro provou ser fraudulenta.
Antonio Canova (1757–1822) Theseus and the Minotaur 1782 Based on the ancient Greek myth, this sculpture represents the moment after the Greek hero Theseus has killed the Minotaur (a half-man, half-bull monster).
Title: Theseus vanquishing the Centaur. Creator: Antonio Canova. Date: 1805. Date Created: 1805. Medium: plaster. Explore museums and play with Art Transfer, Pocket Galleries, Art Selfie, and...
