Editing Antonio Canova (section)

===Venice===
[[File:Antonio canova, orfeo, 1777, 01.JPG|thumb|250px|right|''[[Orpheus]]'', 1777]]

In 1770,<ref name="DoA-5"/> he was an apprentice for two years<ref name="CA"/> to [[Giuseppe Bernardi]], who was also known as 'Torretto'. Afterwards, he was under the tutelage of [[Giovanni Ferrari (sculptor)|Giovanni Ferrari]] until he began his studies at the [[Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia]].<ref name="DoA-5"/> At the academy, he won several prizes.<ref name="EB1911"/> During this time, he was given his first workshop within a monastery by some local monks.<ref name="CA"/>

The Senator Giovanni Falier commissioned Canova to produce statues of [[Orpheus]] and [[Eurydice]] for his garden – the Villa Falier at [[Asolo]].<ref name="wga.hu">{{cite web|url=http://www.wga.hu/html_m/c/canova/1/02orpheu.html|title=Eurydice by CANOVA, Antonio|work=wga.hu}}</ref> The statues were begun in 1775, and both were completed by 1777. The pieces exemplify the late [[Rococo style]].<ref name="wga.hu"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wga.hu/html_m/c/canova/1/01orpheu.html|title=Orpheus by CANOVA, Antonio|website=wga.hu}}</ref> On the year of their completion, both works were exhibited for the [[Feast of the Ascension]] in [[Piazza San Marco]].<ref name="GoV"/> Widely praised, the works won Canova his first renown among the Venetian elite.<ref name="DoA-5"/> Another Venetian who is said to have commissioned early works from Canova was the abate [[Filippo Farsetti]], whose collection at [[Ca' Farsetti]] on the [[Grand Canal (Venice)|Grand Canal]] he frequented.

In 1779, Canova opened his own studio at Calle Del Traghetto at S. Maurizio.<ref name="GoV"/> At this time, [[Procurators of Saint Mark|Procurator]] Pietro Vettor Pisani commissioned Canova's first marble statue: a depiction of [[Daedalus]] and [[Icarus]].<ref name="GoV"/> The statue inspired great admiration for his work at the annual art fair;<ref name="wga.hu1">{{cite web|url=http://www.wga.hu/html_m/c/canova/1/1daedalu.html|title=Daedalus and Icarus by CANOVA, Antonio|work=wga.hu}}</ref> Canova was paid 100 [[Sequin (coin)|gold zecchini]] for the completed work.<ref name="GoV"/> At the base of the statue, Daedalus' tools are scattered about; these tools are also an allusion to Sculpture, of which the statue is a personification.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wga.hu/html_m/c/canova/1/1daedalx.html|title=Daedalus and Icarus by CANOVA, Antonio|website=wga.hu}}</ref> With such an intention, there is suggestion that Daedalus is a portrait of Canova's grandfather Pasino.<ref name="wga.hu1"/>