The Works of Antonio Canova in Sculpture and Modelling (Volume 1) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1824. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... a distinction in this respect. The following may also be mentioned as his attached friends; Gio. Antonio Selva; the sculptor, Antonio D'Este, the constant companion of his study; the excellent Chevr- Gio. Gherardo de Rossi; that able writer, and his warm admirer, Pietro Giordani; and the secretary of the academy of St. Luca, the Abbate Melchior Missirini, with whom he was for many years united by a strict similarity of tastes and pursuits; and the Chevalier Tambroni; but Gavin Hamilton, the Scotch painter, was the first at Rome who gained the youthful attachment of Canova, and he was never satisfied with speaking in terms of grateful remembrance of the kind encouragement and counsel which this worthy man afforded him in the difficulties of his early career. M. Quatremere de Quincy, Lord Cawdor, and Sir William Hamilton, also possessed his friendship in a peculiar degree, and gave, on many occasions, unequivocal proofs of an equal esteem; but the most intimate, cordial, and inseparable of all his friends was his step-brother, the Abbate Sartori Canova, who, from the year 1800, resided entirely with him, and became the participator in his most secret and individual concerns; and to whose sole and sacred friendship he confided at his death the execution of his most cherished designs: but it would not be possible, without exceeding the limits prescribed to this memoir, to mention the many distinguished and enlightened persons who experienced from Canova the most ready intimacy and kindness. To him who shall undertake a more comprehensive and detailed account, these anecdotes will furnish much that is interesting, as well to his contemporaries, as to posterity. xxxvi BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR. The high esteem in which Canova, while living, was held throughout Europe, is...