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| | ARC ARTicles - Biography of Antonio Canova - the Editors of the 1911 Encyclopedia - Page 1/1 |
 | | ANOVA, ANTONIO (1757—1822), Italian sculptor, was born on the 1st of November 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 enrolled amongst the nobility of several states, decorated with various orders of knighthood, and associated in the highest professional honours. |
 | | See the Life of Canova by Memes; that by Missirini; the Biografia by the Count Cicognara; Canova et ses ouvrages, by Quatremere de Quincy (1834); Opere scelte di Antonio Canova, by Anzelmi (Naples, 1842); Canova, by A. Meyer (1898); and La Ret azione del Canova con Napoli... |
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