ANTONIO

CANOVA

The second class Wednesday, February

6th, went to the museum to learn

about Antonio Canova

First, the children followed a guided tour of the works of Canova in

the museum of Bassano.

Children have discovered that Antonio

Canova was a famous Italian sculptor

and painter, born in 1757 in Possagno

In a second time, children took part in a workshop that made

them experience the procedures followed by the artist to

create his works in marble

1.Sketch

The design was the first idea of the work that would have done

then, that Canova had

2.Design

Canova attributed importance to the practice

of drawing, he compared the pencil to the

chisel.

Drawing in pen and pencil

Hercules and Licia

3.Shaping the clay comp

Children

carved with a

stick in the

block of clay,

molded the

subject they

had chosen.

They thus

created the

positive.

In this phase, Canova provided for the creation

of the statue in clay. On the statue was then

poured the gypsum to create the "form".

4. Gypsum model

On the gypsum model Canova inserted the tacks of bronze (Repre) used to

transfer, using a compass (pantograph), proportions from the gypsum model of the

statue of marble.

5. Repre

The realization of the sculpture on

blocks of Carrara marble was very

delicate and it was one of the last

phases of work

6. Sculpture on marble

Canova was polishing his statue

with pumice stone and with the

bathwater when kept immersed his

tools

7. Polish

In the days after the children in the

class have revised the findings on the

sculptor and created posters and a work

written in the notebook .

The kids in the fourth class viewing a

photo exhibition on the works of

Canova.

The forty sevenprinted images were

taken by the photographer Mimmo

Jodice. They were taken in major

museums around the world that are

home to sculptures by Canova.

Among the first major works of the young Canova's just a sculpture mythology, Daedalus and

Icarus. Canova represents the moment in which the father alloy wings on the shoulders of his

son looks like a sad scene, because we know the sad ending, the Fall of Icarus.

In class, the students have also observed more

photos of this sculpture because it represents a

theme in classical art Greek revival by Canova.

Pupils have admired the beauty of proportion

and the skill of the sculptor to make the details

on the stone.

We then read some of the myths associated with

legendary figures of Greek civilization as the guys

are just studying this civilization.