Bozetto for a Tomb

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Artist Circle of Antonio Canova (Italian, 1757–1822)

Title Bozetto for a Tomb

Date Ca. 1800

Medium Terracotta

Dimensions Overall: 8 1/16 x 10 1/4 x 4 9/16 in. (20.5 x 26 x 11.6 cm)

Credit Line Gift of Gloria Middeldorf in Memory of Ulrich Middeldorf, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 87.26.5.4

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Antonio Canova was the most highly acclaimed sculptor working in the years around 1800. Artists and Grand Tourists flocked to his studio in Rome, and his patrons included popes and members of Napoleon Bonaparte’s family. Canova was famed for his finely carved figural sculptures, which epitomized neoclassical aesthetic ideals. This bozzetto—or study for a larger sculpture—was likely made by a follower of Canova. It depicts two figures in antique dress mourning at a tomb.

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