Antonio Canova

Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss — Neoclassical sculpture

The supreme Neoclassical sculptor. His marbles — Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss, the Three Graces, the reclining Pauline Borghese — achieve a surface perfection and idealized beauty that made him the most famous artist in Napoleonic Europe.

Key works

• Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss1793— Love and death reconciled in marble
  Louvre, Paris
• Pauline Borghese as Venus Victrix1808— Napoleon's sister as reclining goddess
  Galleria Borghese, Rome

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