NEOCLASSIC SCULPTOR Ideal head. Marble. Cm 32,00 x 43,00 x 20,00. This marble bust, probably depicting a Greco-Roman goddess or an allegory, is stylistically comparable to the model of the "Ideal Heads" by Antonio Canova (1757-1822), a very successful serie that the famous sculptor developed starting from portraiture of the women of the Napoleonic family to create, starting from the 1810s, a serie of variations on the theme of the "ideal beauty", appreciated and variously imitated throughout the early 19th century.Comparative literature: O. Cucciniello e P. Zatti (cured by), "Canova. I volti ideali", Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Milan 2019-2020.