The Creation of Adam

The Annunciation. Antonio Canova. 1821-22. Marble bas-relief. 103 x 116 cm. Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia. One of seven bas reliefs on Old and New Testament themes on which Canova was working in the year just before his death in 1822. This bas relief is Figure 50 in in Lionel Gossman’s ”Unwilling Moderns: The Nazarene Painters of the Nineteenth Century.

Other work by Antonio Canova on this site

Bibliography

Gossman, Lionel. Unwilling Moderns: The Nazarene Painters of the Nineteenth Century. Victorian Web [Complete text in the Victorian Web].


Last modified 22 September 2016