Shedd, Julia Ann Clark, 1834-1897 · Boston : James R. Osgood and Company · leaf 242
work was aseries of designs for the exterior decoration of Bucking-ham Palace. In 1800 he was elected a member of the Eoyal Acad-emy, and in 1810 was appointed Professor of Sculpture,the professorship having been created expressly for him.He was greatly esteemed, not only for his talents, butfor… … war.] ANTONIO CANOYA. 211 ANTONIO CANOVA. ANTONIO CANOVA was born in 1757 in Possagno,an obscure village among the Venetian Alps nearthe plains of Treviso. He was the only child of PietroCanova, a stone-cutter in humble circumstances. WhenAntonio was very young his father died, and his…
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