3784 x 5975 px | 32 x 50,6 cm | 12,6 x 19,9 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
25 juin 2022
Lieu:
Florence Italy
Informations supplémentaires:
When poet and playwright Vittorio Alfieri died in 1803, Louise of Stolberg-Gedern, the Countess of Albany and his last flame, commissioned the celebrated sculptor Antonio Canova to produce a monumental tomb for the sum of 10, 000 scudi. The following year the sculptor made a design and a plaster model of a bas-relief showing Italy weeping before a bust of Alfieri and a figure, possibly the Genius of Tragedy, but on the advice of the painter François Xavier Fabre, the Countess expressed a desire for a monument with a greater visual impact including at least one statue in the round. After devouring the poet's works and labouring long and hard, Canova met her request by devising a monumental tomb which he himself describes as being: "as solemn and majestic as I could make it, so that the nature of my work should match the loftiness of the great poet's pen".
