The Italian portraits, many in full length, stress grandeur and aristocratic refinement.
The early works in the exhibition, dating until about 1800, are portraits, many full-length, but no routine likenesses.
Unlike Avedon's portraits, many of his subjects look content – like Ma Ying and Zou Saihua (Slide 9), a married couple at the crane factory near Shanghai.
In one two-year period, he churned out 42 portraits, many of people who lived in the houses in this neighborhood.
His portraits, many of family members and friends, were celebrated for their sincerity and for their luminous displays of light and colour.
His noncommercial work included landscapes, still lifes and portraits, many of them painted around his home in Pennsylvania or his summer house in Maine.
He produced hundreds upon hundreds of portraits, many of a visionary, fantastical chic, along with landscapes, genre scenes and drawings galore.
It will be part of an exhibition called Sea of Faces, which will contain hundreds of portraits, many on display for the first time.
A fine sculptor of varying styles, including austere, sentimental, and horrific, Canova produced an extensive body of work that includes Classical groups and friezes, tombs, and portraits, many in antique dress.
