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Giovanni Lanfranco - Saint Agatha visited in prison by Saint Peter and the angel
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Leonardo da Vinci - Head of a girl, called
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Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, detto Parmigianino - Portrait of a gentlewoman known as "The Turkish Slave"
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Domínikos Theotokópoulos, detto El Greco - Healing of the blind
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Antonio Canova - Marie Louise of Habsburg as Concordia
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Antonio Allegri, detto il Correggio - Lamentation over the dead Christ
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Giovanni Battista, detto Cima da Conegliano - Madonna and Child Enthroned and Saints John the Baptist, Cosma, Damiano, Apollonia, Catherine and John the Evangelist
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Hans Holbein il Giovane - Erasmus of Rotterdam
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Benedetto Antelami - Wayside Shrine
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Beato Angelico - Madonna of humility, Saints John the Baptist and Paul and the meeting of Saints Dominic and Francis; in the frame, Fourteen Seraphim
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Antoon van Dyck - Madonna and child
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Giambattista Tiepolo - Saints Joseph of Lioness and Faithful of Sigmaringen Trampling Heresy
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Antonio Allegri, detto il Correggio - Coronation of the Virgin (fragment of the apse of the church of San Giovanni Evangelista in Parma)
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Giorgio Scherer - Interior of a painter's studio
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Alberto Pasini - A caravan that spent the night in an oasis and prepared for departure
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Antonio Allegri, detto il Correggio - Rest during the return from the flight into Egypt called "Madonna della scodella"
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Antonio Allegri, detto il Correggio - Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Magdalene known as "Madonna di San Gerolamo" or "The day"
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Gabriel François Doyen - Death of Virginia
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Damià Campeny - Table triumph
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Giuseppe Baldrighi - Family of Don Filippo di Borbone
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Giovanni Francesco di Niccolò Luteri, detto Dosso Dossi - St. Michael the archangel fights the devil and the Virgin of the Assumption among angels
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Giovanni Antonio Canal, detto Canaletto - Capriccio with Palladian buildings
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Annibale Carracci - Lamentation over the Dead Christ with Saints Clare and Francis of Assisi
Giovanni Lanfranco - Saint Agatha visited in prison by Saint Peter and the angel
Leonardo da Vinci - Head of a girl, called
Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, detto Parmigianino - Portrait of a gentlewoman known as "The Turkish Slave"
Domínikos Theotokópoulos, detto El Greco - Healing of the blind
Antonio Canova - Marie Louise of Habsburg as Concordia
Antonio Allegri, detto il Correggio - Lamentation over the dead Christ
Giovanni Battista, detto Cima da Conegliano - Madonna and Child Enthroned and Saints John the Baptist, Cosma, Damiano, Apollonia, Catherine and John the Evangelist
Hans Holbein il Giovane - Erasmus of Rotterdam
Benedetto Antelami - Wayside Shrine
Beato Angelico - Madonna of humility, Saints John the Baptist and Paul and the meeting of Saints Dominic and Francis; in the frame, Fourteen Seraphim
Antoon van Dyck - Madonna and child
Giambattista Tiepolo - Saints Joseph of Lioness and Faithful of Sigmaringen Trampling Heresy
Antonio Allegri, detto il Correggio - Coronation of the Virgin (fragment of the apse of the church of San Giovanni Evangelista in Parma)
Giorgio Scherer - Interior of a painter's studio
Alberto Pasini - A caravan that spent the night in an oasis and prepared for departure
Antonio Allegri, detto il Correggio - Rest during the return from the flight into Egypt called "Madonna della scodella"
Antonio Allegri, detto il Correggio - Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Magdalene known as "Madonna di San Gerolamo" or "The day"
Gabriel François Doyen - Death of Virginia
Damià Campeny - Table triumph
Giuseppe Baldrighi - Family of Don Filippo di Borbone
Giovanni Francesco di Niccolò Luteri, detto Dosso Dossi - St. Michael the archangel fights the devil and the Virgin of the Assumption among angels
Giovanni Antonio Canal, detto Canaletto - Capriccio with Palladian buildings
Annibale Carracci - Lamentation over the Dead Christ with Saints Clare and Francis of Assisi

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In the autumn of 1810 Canova was invited to Paris to paint the portrait of Napoleon's new wife, Maria Luigia of Habsburg: the artist's diaries record the pose for the creation of the clay model live. Upon returning to Rome, the great sculptor immediately prepared a marble bust and began to work on a large statue - first studying the effect of the composition through some clay sketches - which depicted the sovereign as the personification of Concord, solemnly seated in throne, dressed in the ancient style, with a royal diadem, scepter and patera (a small dish that the ancients used in religious ceremonies): the fusion between the austere classical nobility of the figure and the speaking immediacy of the portrait, between erudite archaeological inspiration and affectionate realistic stroke. The statue was already ready in January 1814, but the dramatic collapse of the Napoleonic empire prevented its transport to Paris. Only in 1817, having now become Duchess of Parma and Piacenza, Maria Luigia managed to recover the sculpture left in Rome in the sculptor's studio, deciding to arrange it in the palace of Colorno, where she remained until 1848, when her heir, Archduke Leopoldo of Habsburg, donated it to the city, so that it would be placed in the niche of the Gallery that the sovereign herself had set up in the Palazzo della Pilotta, where it can still be admired today.


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