Canova reaches a level of aesthetics that few manage to approach.
His perfect and icy works seem to be unaffected by time. These three Graces seem sad; will it be that their client has not been able to see them finished? Poor Giuseppina Beauharnais, Napoleon's wife, disappeared before she could unfortunately see them.
We are faced with the pure neoclassical ideal, made real by one of the last artists who brought Italian art abroad.
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