THE JOB OF CANOVA
The creative trial employed by the Canova for the realization of a sculpture was extraordinary and was composed of four phases.
The sketch was the first phase to which the teacher moved the proper ones “thoughts “on the paper: to them it attributed a fundamental importance comparing the pencil to chisel
 

THE SKETCHES
The patrimony of sketches of the Canova constitutes an unique and precious testimony of his art : of any great sculptor we possess a so remarkable documentation of his graphic activity.
The Canova attributed fundamental importance to the practice of the sketch, comparing the pencil to the chisel , circumstance that didn't even escape his contemporaries, which appreciated of it both the academies of nude and pianeggio and the notes traced of throw on the notebooks, defined by the great teacher his “thoughts.”