Sculpted by Canova

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Antonio Canova (1 November 1757 - 13 October 1822) was an Italian sculptor from the Republic of Venice who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Canova

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  • Vatican City
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    tombs of popes Clement XIV (1783-87) and Clement XIII (1787-92)
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  • Venice and its Lagoon
    Venice and its Lagoon
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    Canova's own heart was interred in a marble pyramid he designed as a mausoleum for the painter Titian in the church of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice, now a monument to the sculptor.
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  • St. Petersburg
    St. Petersburg
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    "many of his finest works made their way to the Hermitage Museum" (wiki)
  • Vienna
    Vienna
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    Cenotaph to Maria Christina of Austria. at the Augustine church
  • Florence
    Florence
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    The "Venus Italica" in the Palazzo Pitti
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