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Excerpt from The Works of Antonio Canova, in Sculpture and Modelling, Vol. 3: Engraved in Outline by Henry Moses; With Descriptions From the Italian, of the Countess Albrizzi, and a Biographical Memoir by Conut Cicognara Since the publication of the life of Canova, by Count. Cicognara, a translation of which is pre fixed to the 'first volume of this work, several pub lications on the same subject have been produced to the world these, although coming from very respectable sources, and containing much interesting detail, do not, however, lay us under the necessity of being otherwise than very brief in our additional notice of this great sculptor; they, in fact, add little that is new and important to, much less do they invalidate, the brief, but correct and comprehen sive, memoir of Cicognara. Few persons, who have been much the object of contemporary pane gyric, will sustain so well as Canova the deductions and qualifications which allayed enthusiasm and a soberer criticism require; and it is sufficient proof of the solidity and originality of his merit that he has undergone this process, Without any essential dimi nution of his fame as an artist, or as a man. The united testimonies of biographers and critics still hilly accord to him the high merit of being the first who practically restored' sculpture to the long for. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.