Canova and His World Marianne North: A Victorian Painter

Marianne North: A Victorian Painter for the 21st Century situates North both as an unconventional botanical painter and as a technically progressive artist who melded differing stylistic approaches

hand-held objects

as well as art-market and museum professionals

This book asks whether we are entering a new 'restitution paradigm'

and more extended case studies of important collections worldwide

Canova and His World Marianne North: A Victorian PainterThis kaleidoscopic study of Antonio Canova (1757 1822), one of the most celebrated sculptors of the Neoclassical era, reconsiders his life, work and artistic legacy in the wake of the two hundredth anniversary of his death. Pestilli here examines how critics such as Carl Ludwig Fernow and Quatremre de Quincy critically shaped both Canovas work and its reception and delves into the striking similarities between Canova and his renowned predecessor, Gian