biography
pronunciation:
[kanohva]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1757–1822)
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| biography:
| Sculptor, born in Possagno, NE Italy. He studied at Venice and Rome, and came to be regarded as the founder of a new Neoclassicist school. His best-known works are the tombs of popes Clement XIII (1787–92) and XIV (1783–7), several statues of Napoleon, and one of his sister Princess Borghese reclining as Venus Victrix (1805–7). In 1802 he was appointed by Pius VII as curator of works of art. |
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