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