Canova

La Riconoscenza

Fernando Mazzocca, Miriam Prencipe

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Hirmer Verlag
01 August 2025

Art & design styles: Classicism; Sculpture; Individual artists, art monographs

Antonio Canova invented a new genre with his Ideal Heads. They were intended as gifts for close friends and persons he admired as an expression of his affection and gratitude. Starting from the famous bust La Riconoscenza, this magnificent large-format volume offers an impressive survey of these unique expressions of friendship.

Canova’s masterpiece La Riconocenza (Gratitude) was long thought to have been lost. It is a tribute to his most important critic, the cultural theorist Quatremère de Quincy. The sculpture was commissioned by the artist Marquise de Grollier as a gift for their mutual friend. These three distinguished individuals left their mark on the cultural life of their time. The author traces the history of the genesis of La Riconocenza through their remarkable correspondence and integrates it into the context of Canova’s Teste ideale.

By: Fernando Mazzocca
Contributions by: Miriam Prencipe
Imprint: Hirmer Verlag
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 340mm, Width: 240mm,
ISBN: 9783777443034
ISBN 10: 3777443034
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 01 August 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Fernando Mazzocca is a leading Canova specialist and a former professor at the Università Ca' Foscari in Venice and La Statale in Milan.