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VG-(Light shelfwear and scuffing, black marker line on bottom of text block, binding is tight, pages are clean and clear) Glossy white wraps with color illustration and black lettering; (xx), 405 pp; illustrated throughout in bw and color. Text in Italian. "Exhibition held at the Correr Museum, Venice, and the Gipsoteca, Possagno, 22 March-30 September, 1992"--Page [vii]. Contents: A European adventure. The visible expression of the soul / Giulio Carlo Argan; An Enlish paradox / Agostino Lombardo; Canova, Goethe and thereabouts / Paolo Chiarini; Ambassador extraordinaire / Carlo Pietrangeli; Canova, restoration Europe and the Russia of Alexander I / Giuliano Briganti; The unending enchantment / Roberto Calasso--An artist and his world. Canova's sculptural practice / Hugh Honour; The Venetian Canova / Giuseppe Pavanello; A yearning for home / Giandomenico Romanelli; Reflections on Canova and the art of antiquity / Irene Favaretto; Grace and the Graces / Gianni Venturi; A myth in his lifetime / Fernando Mazzocca--Catalogue of exhibited works. Portraits of Canova; Drawings; Bozzetti and models; Paintings; Reliefs; Sculpture; Busts; Ideal heads--Antonio Canova at Possagno. Early days in the Canova revival / Elena Bassi; The Tempio / Giandomenico Romanelli; A tomb for Canova / Paolo Mariuz; The Gipsoteca / Giuseppe Pavanello; The Gipsoteca in the twentieth century / Gabriella Delfini Filippi; Canova and Possagno / Filippa M. Aliberti Gaudioso; The Tempio works--Chronology.