Bust of Peace

* A revised version of this model is currently being worked on * Bust sold at auction (4th July 2018) - £5,303,500 Antonio Canova's masterful Bust of Peace was last displayed in public over two hundred years ago when it was exhibited at the Royal Academy summer exhibition of 1817. Long thought lost, this rediscoverable marble is of seminal importance within the oeuvre of Canova, considered the greatest Neoclassical sculptor. The Bust of Peace is the first of the sculptor's celebrated Ideal Heads (Teste ideali) to have been received by a high ranking British aristocrat at the close of the Napoleonic Wars. It was the first such head to arrive in Britain and, by virtue of its subject, is symbolic of the peace established by the Great Powers after Waterloo. Futher reading* 本模型的修订版本目前正在开发中 * 2018年7月4日拍卖的胸像——成交价5,303,500英镑 安东尼奥·卡诺瓦（Antonio Canova）的传世杰作《和平胸像》（Bust of Peace）上一次公开展出是在两百多年前的1817年英国皇家美术学院夏季展览。这座曾长期被认为佚失的大理石雕塑，在被公认为最伟大新古典主义雕塑家的卡诺瓦的创作全集中具有开创性意义。《和平胸像》是该雕塑家知名的理想头像系列（Ideal Heads，Teste ideali）中，第一件在拿破仑战争结束后被英国高阶贵族收藏的作品。它亦是该系列头像中首件传入英国的作品，以其主题成为滑铁卢战役后欧洲列强所确立和平的象征。 拓展阅读