Maidservant as muse: The dramatic reinvention of Antonio Canova
In the mid-1870s, the playwright Lodovico Muratori (1834-1919) wrote a play based on the life of the sculptor, Antonio Canova, that focused on a fictional, unconsummated passion between Canova and his housekeeper, Luigia Giuli. This play, published by the Milanese editor Carlo Barbini concurrently w...
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Department of Art History, University of Birmingham
2010-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Art Historiography |
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| Online Access: | http://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/media_183168_en.pdf |