Canova, Johann Gottfried Schadow e l'ambiente berlinese (con un'appendice di lettere inedite di Schadow a Canova)

Abstract

This article investigates J.G. Schadow's relevance as a portraitist and as a sculptor of funerary monuments. In the appendix are published Schadow's letters to Canova, documents that help to contextualize Canova's relations to the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts.