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Perseus with the Head of Medusa
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The composition of Antonio Canova's depiction of Perseus and The Gorgon Medusa has probed to be one of the most important of Canova's career. It closely reflects his admiration for the art of antiquity and signals his fame as the rival or ancient masters. It was obviously, if freely, based on the Apollo Belvedere, whose loss had been widely mourned in Italy ever since Napoleon's troops carted it off from the Vatican to Paris in 1797. In its frontality and majestic motion, Perseus' stance recalls the antique Apollo, but Canova's hero's gaze is focused on the severed head of the Gorgon Medusa, which in turn was based on another famous antiquity, the marble mask known as the Rondanini Medusa (Glyptothek, Munich). When finished, Canova's marble was purchased by Pope Pius VII, who placed it in the niche where the Apollo Belvedere had once stood. Inplicit in this act was championing of contemporary Italian art and defiance of the French conquerors of Italy. The following year, Canova was fur
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