Shown: 18 × 24 in · UnframedPreview is to relative scale
Plate Nº 004 · First edition
The Vestal
Antonio Canova · Marble · ca. 1819–23
Price to be set
The real thing
This one exists. Here are the facts.
- Work
- The Vestal
- Sculptor
- Antonio Canova
- Date
- probably ca. 1819–23
- Material
- Marble
- Primary source
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access
- Printing
- Made to order, one at a time
Why I made this series
These are real statues. Real hands carved them for emperors, temples and tombs, and they have outlasted every one of them. Stand in front of one and it still wins the staring contest. I wanted to pull them off the pedestal and give them the poster a headliner gets: loud colour, a halo, and a name you can read from across the room.
