Possagno Essays

Real Love or Desperation. “Since the earliest times, humans have needed to be sensitive to their surroundings to survive, which means that we have an innate awareness of our environment and seek our environments with certain qualities.” Mary Jo Kreitzer PhD. Lieutenant Frederic Henry would very much understand the concept above. Henry was driven to love due to the environment he was in. Henry was subconsciously aware of his surroundings and wanted to psychologically survive the stressful situation

Antonia Canova pictured above from a self portrait was born in 1757 in a small Italian town called Possagno. “…Canova was the son of Pietro Canova (1735–61), a stonecutter of Possagno.”(Oxford Art Online) After his father passed away when he was three “He was brought up by his grandfather, Pasino Canova (1714–94), a mediocre sculptor who specialized in altars with statues and low reliefs in late Baroque style.” (Oxford Art Online) Then Canova became apprenticed to the sculptor Giuseppe Bernardi where