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Original works by Antonio Canova available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database NEW!
2 works by Antonio Canova online
Canova Museum, Possagno, Italy
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
Victory, ca.1813
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
10 works by Canova
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Apollo Crowning Himself, 1781
Herm of a Vestal Virgin, 1820
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
Leopoldine Esterházy, 1805-17 (Zoom)
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
3 portrait busts
Antonio Canova in the Louvre Museum Database, Paris (only available in French)
2 sculptures
Antonio Canova at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Perseus with the Head of Medusa, ca.1804-06 (Zoom)
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City
2 works online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Antonio Canova at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Winged Victory, ca.1803/06
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
Fountain Nymph (Ninfa delle fontane), 1815-17
Dirce, 1820-24
Art Fund for UK Museums
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Terpsichore
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
115 works by or related to the artist
Fondazione Magnani-Rocca, Parma, Italy
The Muse Terpsichore
Galleria Borghese, Rome
Pauline Bonaparte
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome (in Italian) NEW! 
Ercole e Lica
GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin
Sappho
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts NEW!
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Ideal Head of a Woman
Museo Correr, Venice (in Italian)
Click on each of the room numbers for works by Canova
National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
Repentant Mary Magdalene
Palazzo Braschi, Rome, Italy
Works in the database (can be a little slow)
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
(On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image)
Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan (in Italian)
Self-portrait
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Calliope, 1812
San Diego Museum of Art, California
Requires Flash: Click on "Artist Index", then on "C"
State Museums of Berlin NEW!
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)
Commercial Galleries:
Daniel Katz Ltd. European Sculpture, London, UK
Past notable sales: Canova's Sappho
Pictures from Image Archives:
Antonio Canova in the Art Renewal Center
Artonline
Antonio Canova at CGFA
Antonio Canova at Insecula
Antonio Canova in the Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
1200 Years of Italian Sculpture (mostly in Italian)
AICT: Art Images for College Teaching
Pauline Borghese Bonaparte as Venus Victrix (detail)
Artyzm
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
Boston College Fine Arts Department
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project 
PBase Photo Sharing
(Set the size to "original" to see images at their highest resolution)
Other Web Sites:
Beloit College Department of Classics
Helen
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
Kilidavid
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Antonio Canova
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Time Magazine
"Fugues in Stone and Air", 1992 article by Robert Hughes
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