Research Catalog

Title

Canova's George Washington / Xavier F. Salomon with Guido Beltramini and Mario Guderzo.

Author

Salomon, Xavier F., 1979-

Publication

• New York : The Frick Collection ; London : in association with D Giles Limited, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Beltramini, Guido
• Guderzo, Mario
• Frick Collection, issuing body, host institution.
• Museo Canova, host instituion.

Description

188 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Summary

Canova was a prolific artist who received countless prestigious commissions--only one, however, from the United States. This was the commission from the North Carolina State House in Raleigh for a posthumous statue of George Washington. The fascinating story of Thomas Jefferson's role in urging the selection of Canova and determining key aspects of the statue, of the making and shipping of the statue to the United Sates, of its tragic destruction ten years later and its eventual replacement with the original plaster model, and later replacement with a marble reproduction by Romano Vio is a tale well told by Xavier F. Salomon, Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at the Frick, together with Mario Guderzo, Director of the Gypsotheca e Museo Antonio Canova, and Guido Beltramini, Director of the Palladio Museum in Vicenza.

Subjects

• Artists' preparatory studies
• Washington, George, 1732-1799
• Italy
• Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822 > George Washington > Exhibitions
• Exhibition catalogs
• Artists' preparatory studies > Italy > Exhibitions
• Washington, George, 1732-1799 > Statues > Exhibitions
• Statues

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Canova's "George Washington," on view at the Frick Collection, May 23-September 23, 2018, and the Canova Museum.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Director's foreword -- Preface and acknowledgments -- "The Boast and Pride of North America": Antonio Canova's George Washington / by Xavier F. Salomon -- The Classical conception of Antonio Canova / by Mario Guderzo -- Jefferson, Italy, and Palladio / by Guido Beltramini -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.

Call Number

JQF 18-2037

ISBN

• 9781911282174
• 1911282174

LCCN

2017050291

OCLC

1008776014

Author

Salomon, Xavier F., 1979- author.

Title

Canova's George Washington / Xavier F. Salomon with Guido Beltramini and Mario Guderzo.

Publisher

New York : The Frick Collection ; London : in association with D Giles Limited, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Beltramini, Guido, author.

Guderzo, Mario, author.

Frick Collection, issuing body, host institution.

Museo Canova, host instituion.

Research Call Number

JQF 18-2037