The replica is in marble
Author: Antonio Canova (1757-1822)
The original masterpiece, in white Carrara marble, is located in the Staatliche Museen in Berlin, Germany.
Antonio Canova was a Venetian sculptor who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude or draped flesh.
Between his preferred subjects there were “ the dancers”, light and elegant shapes carved in pure white Carrara marbles. His dancers were represented in groups, in separated couples or as single delicate dancer in her classic light movings. Exceptional the device of the base, mobile, used to make the movement very real, especially in the works in which it is the pregnant element.
The Dancer with Castanets, which was born as a couple with another similar subject, the Dancer with Cymbals, was carved between 1809 and 1814.
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