5/22/2023 0 Comments Icarus statueThese materials are used to create high-quality replicas that look and feel like the original sculpture. ![]() Many reproductions are created using environmentally friendly materials such as marble, plaster, and bronze. Once the plastic sculpture has been sanded and smoothed, we paint it by hand using high-quality paint in plaster, marble, bronze, and other colors to achieve a durable finish. Our goal is to create a high-quality replica that faithfully reproduces the original sculpture. After 3D printing, we process the plastic sculpture by hand, which includes sanding, smoothing, filling any gaps or imperfections, and covering the sculptures with a special material to ensure durability for outdoor use. The first step is to print a plastic version of the original sculpture using a 3D printer. To create a plastic sculpture reproduction, we use 3D printing technology. We use several methods to create reproduction sculptures, each with its unique process. Sculpture reproductions are a popular way of making art more accessible. Young Canova earned 100 gold zecchins for his work, which he used to travel to Rome Presented at the Fiera della Sensa (Ascension) in 1777 where it met with resounding success. An eloquent trademark of the sculptor, the mallet and chisel lying at the feel of the elderly architect are placed in ideal continuity with the artifice Daedalus. The treatment of the marble surface is vibrant and still a long way away from the polished purity that was to become a characteristic of Canova. ![]() Expressing a form of emotion and dramatic communication, with his face contracted by doubt, the father Daedalus is attaching the wings made of feathers held together by wax to the arms of his young son Icarus who is humouring him in all tranquillity, looking forward to the joy of the flight that will allow him to flee the labyrinth and the threat of the Minotaur. ![]() This skilled composition links the two figures around an empty void, enclosed circularly by the threat that goes from Daedalus’ wing and hand. Just twenty years old, with amazing geniality here Canova achieved a suggestive contrast between the classical model (Icarus) and the characteristically Venetian particular eighteenth-century pictorial naturalism, inspired by Giamabattista Piazzetta's Daedalus. The work was commissioned by the procurator Pietro Vettor Pisari for his Palazzo overlooking the Grand Canal. In the centre of the magnificent Sala delle vedute (Room of views) by painter Giuseppe Borsato – a successful venetian interpreter of Fontaine’s Napoleonic ‘Empire Style’ - is the marble group of Daedalus and Icarus, one of Antonio Canova’s earliest masterpieces.
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