person
Antonio Canova
Canova
also: Кановы, Canova
Antonio Canova (1757-1822), the celebrated Neoclassical sculptor; Chekhov singles out his tomb in a Venetian church, among the city's burials of great artists "like kings."
Reading notes
- To I. P. Chekhov, 1891. Venice. §7 Canova
Antonio Canova (1757-1822), the Neoclassical sculptor; his cenotaph, in the form of a marble pyramid, stands in the Basilica dei Frari in Venice.
- To M. Ye. Chekhov, 1891. Venice. §6 tomb of the sculptor Canova
Antonio Canova's cenotaph in the Basilica dei Frari, which Chekhov had already described to his brother Ivan the day before (\S7, "the tombs of Canova and Titian are magnificent"); here he adds the detail he omitted there -- the grieving marble lion with its forepaws outstretched, the monument's best-known feature.