Lost wax bronze replica
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.
The Dancer with Cymbals, which was born as a couple with another similar subject, the Dancer with Castanets, was carved between 1809 and 1814.
The girl is represented in the attitude of making an elegant dance step, wearing sandals on her feet and with her fingers she gently grasps the cymbals, which she is playing. The body, stationary on the tip of one foot, stretches upwards as if to follow the sound it has just produced with the cymbals, while the head lowered on the shoulder is listening to the last vibrations that slowly vanish.
In the work the girl is caught in a dance movement with her arms raised high while clutching the cymbals and her left foot raised backwards.
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