Antonio Canova is known throughout the world as the greatest neoclassical sculptor of the late 18th and early 19th century. He is regarded - together with the painter Jacques Louis David - as the forerunner of a new, simple and regular aesthetic form inspired by classical antiquity. An undeniable talent can also be found in the carving of marble surfaces, such that his works of art seem alive.
Canova can be said to be a child of art, born into a family of sculptors and stonemasons on 1 November 1757, in Possagno, a town in the province of Treviso. In particular, his grandfather
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