Canova

[ kuh-noh-vuh; Italian kah-naw-vah ]

/ kəˈnoʊ və; Italian kɑˈnɔ vɑ /

An·to·nio

[ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/,1757–1822, Italian sculptor.

Example sentences from the Web for canova

As a sculptor, Thorvaldsen's name will always be linked with that of his great rival and contemporary, Canova.

A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year |Edwin Emerson
Rezia and Canova were placed in one, and Maroncelli and myself in the other.

My Ten Years' Imprisonment |Silvio Pellico
Canova also trusted chiefly to the plastic sense to create the form.

Donatello |David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford
It is one of the least conspicuous, but not one of the least beautiful of Canova's.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCLXXVI. February, 1847. Vol. LXI. |Various

In Rome he wrote a sonnet to the sculptor Canova, and the literary circles of Italy proclaimed him a poet after their own heart.

Historic Inventions |Rupert S. Holland

Canova

/ (Italian kaˈnɔːva) /

Antonio (anˈtɔːnjo). 1757–1822, Italian neoclassical sculptor