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‘In Vienna, Canova’s great tomb to the Austrian Archduchess Maria Christina (1798-1805; Augustinerkirche)* is probably the most moving Neoclassical monument ever made, It consists of a frieze of classically draped figures, depicting all ages of man. At the time, this frieze was compared to a chorus from Sophocles. The figures seem to advance towards the blackness of an open door, set in the side of the tomb itself, which is a plain marble pyramid. Neither Banks** nor Canova chose to add any supernatural images to those monuments, despite the pathos and sentiment of both works. They seem to be expressing a disillusion and doubt which was also expressed by writers & philosophers at the end of the 18th century [ce].’

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***[– ibid (Encyclopaedia of Visual Art) 744]

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