Michael Waldron selects The Goddess Concordia (c. 1816) by Antonio Canova from the collection of the Crawford Art Gallery
In 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte declared, ‘I am a true Roman Emperor.’ This was, at least, borne out in the Imperial Style associated with his reign. Along with painters Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825) and Antoine-Jean Gros (1771–1835), the sculptor Antonio Canova (1757–1822) would help to define the Neoclassical portrait of the First French Empire.
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