Hebe (Antonio Canova) : Alte Nationalgalerie : Art Project, powered by Google

As the cup bearer of the gods and herself the goddess of youth, Hebe treads gracefully down from the clouds. Embodying hospitable generosity, her gestures are feminine as she offers a goblet containing the elixir of eternal youth. The gent-ly flowing movement of her body, all the more elegant for its fine marble skin, is arrested in the two containers, which, made from hard gleaming metal, both contrast with and emphasize the translucence of the marble. Hebe is clothed in finely gathered drapery that plays around her legs, accentuating rather than concealing her shape. Her upper body is that of a girl, its form only hinted at as though wearing some light garment. Canova’s art comes at the end of a tradition in which the pleasing decorative aspect of the whole was valued above the effectiveness of individual parts, and when it was also still artistically acceptable to portray transitory, non-plastic notions such as floating and the wind, very much in the spirit of Baroque ideals of representation. Around 1800 the sculptor Canova enjoyed the highest of reputations throughout Europe, for his figures did indeed personify the Age of Sentiment and Sensibility.

Text: © Prestel Verlag / Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Bernhard Maaz
Photo: © b p k - Photo Agency / Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Klaus Göken

Artwork Name	Artist Name
View of the Flower of Greece	Ahlborn, August Wilhelm Julius (after Schinkel)
Pan Comforting Psyche	Begas, Reinhold
Forest path near Spandau	Blechen, Carl
Gorge near Amalfi	Blechen, Carl
The Interior of the Palm House	Blechen, Carl
The Neustadt-Eberswalde Rolling Mill	Blechen, Carl
View of Roofs and Gardens	Blechen, Carl
Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle	Böcklin, Arnold
The Isle of the Dead	Böcklin, Arnold
Hebe	Canova, Antonio
Balcony Room with a View of the Bay of Naples	Carus, Carl Gustav
Pilgrim in a Rocky Valley	Carus, Carl Gustav
The Grove, or the Admiral's House in Hampstead	Constable, John
The Blinded Samson	Corinth, Lovis
The Family of the Painter Fritz Rumpf	Corinth, Lovis
Seine Landscape near Chatou	Corot, Jean-Baptiste Camille
The Wave	Courbet, Gustave
The Weir at the Mill	Courbet, Gustave
Mill on the Couleuvre at Pontoise	Cézanne, Paul
Still Life with Flowers and Fruit	Cézanne, Paul
Stormclouds over the Castle Tower in Dresden	Dahl, Johan Christian Clausen
Spring Landscape	Daubigny, Charles-François
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza	Daumier, Honoré
The Artist's Mother	Eysen, Louis
Ricordo di Tivoli	Feuerbach, Anselm
Self-Portrait	Feuerbach, Anselm
The Symposium (Second Version)	Feuerbach, Anselm
Abbey among Oak Trees	Friedrich, Caspar David
Monk by the Sea	Friedrich, Caspar David
Moonrise over the Sea	Friedrich, Caspar David
Solitary Tree	Friedrich, Caspar David
Woman at a Window	Friedrich, Caspar David
Parocialstraße	Gaertner, Eduard
Rear view of the Houses at Schloßfreiheit	Gaertner, Eduard
Self-Portrait with Eye-shade	Graff, Anton
The Reading Room	Hasenclever, Johann Peter
The Granite Dish in the Berlin Lustgarten	Hummel, Erdmann
Outpost Duty	Kersting, Georg Friedrich
Amphitrite	Klinger, Max
The Walker	Klinger, Max
Parade on the Opernplatz in Berlin	Krüger, Franz
Dachau Woman and Child	Leibl, Wilhelm
Lake Grunewald	Leistikow, Walter
Orphan Girls in Amsterdam	Liebermann, Max
The Flax Barn at Laren	Liebermann, Max
Women Plucking Geese	Liebermann, Max
In the Conservatory	Manet, Edouard
The House at Rueil	Manet, Edouard
Building Site with Willows	Menzel, Adolph
Flute Concert with Frederick the Great in Sanssouci	Menzel, Adolph
Studio Wall	Menzel, Adolph
The Balcony Room	Menzel, Adolph
The Berlin-Potsdam Railway	Menzel, Adolph
The Dinner at the Ball	Menzel, Adolph
The Iron Rolling Mill (Modern Cyclopes)	Menzel, Adolph
The Théâtre du Gymnase	Menzel, Adolph
St. Germain l'Auxerrois	Monet, Claude
Summer	Monet, Claude
Burg Scharfenberg at Night	Oehme, Ernst Ferdinand
The Selling of Joseph	Overbeck, Friedrich
Seated Victoria, Throwing a Wreath	Rauch, Christian Daniel
Children's Afternoon at Wargemont	Renoir, Auguste
Summer	Renoir, Auguste
Portait of the Artist's Mother	Rethel, Alfred
Lake in the Riesengebirge	Richter, Gustav Karl Ludwig
The Well in the Wood at Ariccia	Richter, Gustav Karl Ludwig
Man and his Thought	Rodin, Auguste
The Road to Gelmeroda	Rohlfs, Christian
The Battlefield at Marathon	Rottmann, Carl
Pauline Runge with her two-year-old-son	Runge, Philipp Otto
Double statue of the princess Luise and Friederike of Prussia	Schadow, Johann Gottfried
Tombstone for Count Alexander von der Mark	Schadow, Johann Gottfried
Portrait of Heinrike Dannecker	Schick, Gottlieb
Castle by the River	Schinkel, Karl Friedrich
Gothic Church on a Rock by the Sea	Schinkel, Karl Friedrich
Morning	Schinkel, Karl Friedrich
Still Life with Partridges and Cheese	Schuch, Carl
The Singer Francisco d'Andrade as Don Giovanni in Mozart's Opera (The Red d'Andrade)	Slevogt, Max
Flying Kites	Spitzweg, Carl
Summer	Thoma, Hans
On the Sofa	Trübner, Wilhelm
Estaminet - Flemish Tavern	Ury, Lesser
Portrait of the Mother of Captain von Stierle-Holzmeister	Waldmüller, Ferdinand Georg
Prater Landscape	Waldmüller, Ferdinand Georg
Joseph Reveals Himself to His Brothers	von Cornelius, Peter
Resting Shepherd Boy	von Hildebrand, Adolf
Riders at the Tegernsee	von Kobell, Wilhelm
Self-Portrait with Yellow Hat	von Marées, Hans
The Rowers	von Marées, Hans
Portrait of Christine Freifrau von Schönberg	von Rayski, Ferdinand
Portrait of Count Haubold von Einsiedel	von Rayski, Ferdinand
Farewell at Dawn	von Schwind, Moritz
The Rose, or the Artist's Journey	von Schwind, Moritz
The Mealtime Prayer	von Uhde, Fritz
In the Troops' Quarters outside Paris	von Werner, Anton

Hebe, Antonio Canova

Hebe

Antonio Canova

Antonio Canova