The Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia is a public tertiary academy of art in Venice, Italy.
Façade of the former Ospedale degli Incurabili, now home of the academy
Antonio Canova
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Antonio Canova was an Italian Neoclassical sculptor, famous for his marble sculptures. Often regarded as the greatest of the Neoclassical artists, his sculpture was inspired by the Baroque and the classical revival, and has been characterised as having avoided the melodramatics of the former, and the cold artificiality of the latter.
Orpheus, 1777
Theseus and the Minotaur, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
George Washington, plaster replica on display at the North Carolina Museum of History