. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... ider-ation of his taliMit. .\s no confession couldbe extorted from him, he obtained his He now entered into orders, andwas admitted one of the chapter of Gre-nada ; but he still contiiuied in the sedulouspractice of his art. He died in of his pictures are in the churchesof Grenada and Malaga; and one of thefinest of them, a weeping Magdalen, adornsa church at Madrid. , Antonio, one of the great-est of mcnlern sculptors, was born, in 1757,at Passaiio, a villa
. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... ider-ation of his taliMit. .\s no confession couldbe extorted from him, he obtained his He now entered into orders, andwas admitted one of the chapter of Gre-nada ; but he still contiiuied in the sedulouspractice of his art. He died in of his pictures are in the churchesof Grenada and Malaga; and one of thefinest of them, a weeping Magdalen, adornsa church at Madrid. , Antonio, one of the great-est of mcnlern sculptors, was born, in 1757,at Passaiio, a village in the Venetianstates. The first indication of his talenthe is said to have gixen when he wastweKe years old, by modelling a lion inbutler, to be sent up to the table <.f Falieri,the seii:neur of the village. Struck withtlie gi-nius that ,vas thus displayed, Falieritook him under his protection, and com-mitted him to the tuition of Torretti. .Atthe age of fevenlei-n, he produced his■tatue of Eurvdice. On the death of CAN Torretti, Canova commenced sculptor onhis own account at Venice. In 1779, be. wag invited to Rome, by the Venetianambassador to the pope, and there SirWilliam Hamilton introduced him to allhis friends. The pontiff ami the nobilityalso vied in finding occupation for VII. knighted him, and appointedhim inspector general of the fine arts. In1802, at the desire of the first consul, hevisited Paris, was received w ith respect,and chosen a foreign associate of the In-stitute. When, however, he next went toParis, in 1815, his presence excited onlyfeelings of ang(;r and hatred. He thenappeared as amb;issador troiii the pope, tosuperintend the sending back to Italy itsplundered works of art. andwitticisms were lavished on him; and itwas said that lie ought to be called thepopes packer instead of his ambassadorFor this, however, he was amplv indemni-fied by his receptiim in Englaixl, where hewas treated as a brother by all lovers ofart, and wa
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