Neoclassical sculpture

Psyche Revived by Love's Kiss, a neoclassical sculpture by Antonio Canova.

Neoclassical sculpture was a sculptural style of the 18th and 19th centuries. The neoclassical period (c.1750-1850) was one of the great ages of public sculpture, though its "classical" prototypes were more likely to be Roman copies of Hellenistic sculptures. The neoclassical sculptors paid homage to an idea of the generation of Pheidias. They ignored both Archaic Greek art and the works of Late Antiquity.

The most familiar representatives are the Italian Antonio Canova, the Englishman John Flaxman and the Dane Bertel Thorvaldsen. The European neoclassical manner also took hold in the United States, where its pinnacle occurred somewhat later and is exemplified in the sculptures of Hiram Powers, Randolph Rogers, William Henry Rinehart and others.

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  Randolph Rogers, Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii, 1856

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  José Álvarez Cubero Ganymede, 1804