Sculpted by Canova

Antonio Canova (1 November 1757 - 13 October 1822) was an Italian sculptor from the Republic of Venice who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Canova

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Florence The "Venus Italica" in the Palazzo Pitti
St. Petersburg "many of his finest works made their way to the Hermitage Museum" (wiki)
Vatican City tombs of popes Clement XIV (1783-87) and Clement XIII (1787-92)
Venice and its Lagoon Canova's own heart was interred in a marble pyramid he designed as a mausoleum for the painter Titian in the church of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice, now a monument to the sculptor.
Vienna Cenotaph to Maria Christina of Austria. at the Augustine church

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