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The Graces
Self portrait
Cupid Lubomirski
Creugante
Theseus winner of the Centaur
Love and Psyche
Theseus on the Minotaur
Dancer with hands on hips
Dancer with her finger to her chin
The surprise
The Graces and Venus dance in front of Mars
Paolina Borghese Bonaparte as the winning Venus
Portrait of Antonio Canova
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Dancer with her finger to her chin

Antonio Canova

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Canova Museum

Canova Museum

Via A. Canova, 74, Possagno

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Dance, which by its nature seeks beauty in movement, becomes the image par excellence of grace in Neoclassicism. The repetition of the dancing figures within Canova's production is evidence of the artist's interest in the study of movement. Being a privileged theme, he translates it into numerous statues of goddesses, muses, mythological figures, reliefs, drawings and tempera that exhibit a remarkable variety of dance movements and poses. The dancer with the finger to the chin is the second composition on the theme of a dancing girl and represents another example of the novelty in sculpture, somehow modern, and confirms its convincing conception, independent of the ancient models. The figure develops according to a graceful wavy line, in which the delicacy of the slightly bent head, the slight movement of the arms and the soft clothing emanate a strong venustas (beauty), gentle and sweet. It was requested by the banker Domenico Manzoni of Forlì, wishing a work to be placed in a small temple and in 1814 the statue was finished. It was seriously offended and damaged in 1917 by the shelling that hit the Gypsotheca.
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Title: Dancer with her finger to her chin

Author: Antonio Canova

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Technique: Gesso

Displayed in: Canova Museum

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