* Canova's Three Graces ( first version ) in the Hermitage museum, St. Petersburg

It includes Canova's The Three Graces, which the museum jointly owns with National Galleries of Scotland.

Some of his donations, especially contributions towards the purchases of Canova's The Three Graces by The National Galleries of Scotland and the Madonna of the Pinks by Raphael, foiled acquisition efforts by the J. Paul Getty Museum endowed by his father.

* Antonio Canova's " The Three Graces "

The Three Graces, Canova's first version, now in the Hermitage Museum

Canova's assistants roughly blocked out the marble, leaving Canova to finish the final carving and shape the stone to highlight the Graces ’ soft flesh.

As a matter of fact, the Elgin marbles-after an advise by Canova-were acquired by the British Museum, while plaster copies were sent to Florence, Italy, according to Canova's request.

* Canova's Perseus and Medusa in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ( 2009 ).

Neoclassical works includes Antonio Canova's Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss ( 1787 ).

The Three Graces ( sculpture ) | The Three Graces, Hermitage

The Three Graces and the Venus are more elevated.

Mars Being Disarmed by Venus | Mars Being Disarmed by Venus and the Three Graces, David's last great work ( 1824 )

David created his last great work, Mars Being Disarmed by Venus and the Three Graces, from 1822 to 1824.

He also painted many small and exquisite cabinet paintings in these years, probably mostly for the connoisseurs in the Urbino court, like the Three Graces and St. Michael, and he began to paint Madonnas and portraits.

Red chalk study for the Villa Farnesina Three Graces

* The Three Graces ( relief )

* Antonio Canova, The Three Graces ( displayed on rotation with the Victoria and Albert Museum in London )

The marble sculpture of the Three Graces holding the urn, executed from a single piece of marble by Germain Pilon the sculptor to Catherine de ' Medici, survives.

Image: Monument du coeur d ' Henri II. jpg | Monument to the Heart of Henry II, Louvre, Paris, sculpture of the Three Graces by Germain Pilon holding a replica of the urn that contained the king's heart

Ordinarily the Hesperides number three, like the other Greek triads ( the Three Graces and the Moirai ).

Together they were known as the Three Graces, or the Charites.

To the right of the chimney, The Three Graces by Jean-Baptiste van Loo represents the " Mesdemoiselles " from Nesle, three sisters who were successive favourites of King Louis XV: Madame de Châteauroux, Vintimille, Mailly.

The grand neo-Classical Cunard Building was the third of Liverpool's Three Graces.

The The Three Graces ( sculpture ) | Three Graces by Canova

Canova has a lightness and grace, where Thorvaldsen is more severe ; the difference is exemplified in their respective groups of the Three Graces.

Three elements have been important in holding the Communion together: First, the shared ecclesial structure of the component churches, manifested in an episcopal polity maintained through the apostolic succession of bishops and synodical government ; second, the principle of belief expressed in worship, investing importance in approved prayer books and their rubrics ; and third, the historical documents and standard divines that have influenced the ethos of the Communion.

# Division Three ( second edition ): 6 Teams – Top 2 qualify for the World Cup Qualifier.

Three weeks later at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, all three entries retired although the Ginther / Gregory car led the field from the second lap until its first pitstop.

The Han Dynasty ( simplified Chinese: 汉朝 ; traditional Chinese: 漢朝 ; pinyin: Hàn Cháo ; 206 BCE – 220 CE ) was the second imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin Dynasty and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms ( 220 – 265 CE ). Spanning over four centuries, the period of the Han Dynasty is considered a golden age in Chinese history. To this day, China's majority ethnic group refers to itself as the " Han people ".

Three other synods on the subject were held, at the second of which the followers of Barlaam gained a brief victory.

Three years after the volcano's last eruption, on 19 December 1973, the Cousteau team was filming on Deception Island, Antarctica when Michel Laval, Calypsos second in command, was struck and killed by a propeller of the helicopter that was ferrying between Calypso and the island.

Three of Harrison's early wooden clocks have survived ; the first ( 1713 ) is at the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers ' Collection in Guildhall ; the second ( 1715 ), is in the Science Museum and the third ( 1717 ) is at Nostell Priory in Yorkshire, the face bearing the inscription " John Harrison Barrow ".

Three separate categories for the kulaks were designated: The first consisted of kulaks to be sent to the Gulags, the second was for kulaks to be relocated to distant parts of the USSR ( such as the north Urals and Kazahkstan ), and the third to other parts of their province.

Three cases were disposed of during the Court's first session, one during an extraordinary sitting between 8 January and 7 February 1923 ( the Tunis-Morocco Nationality Question ), four during the second ordinary sitting between 15 June 1923 and 15 September 1923 ( Eastern Carelia Question, S. S. Wimbledon Case, German Settlers Question, Acquisition of Polish Nationality Question ) and one during a second extraordinary session from 12 November to 6 December 1923 ( Jaworznia Question ).

Three plays later, Biletnikoff's 48-yard reception moved the ball to the Vikings 2-yard line, setting up Banaszak's second rushing touchdown to increase Oakland's lead to 26 – 7.

Three of the roots of the tree support it, and these three roots also extend extremely far: one " is among the Æsir, the second among the frost jötnar, and the third over Niflheim.

* December 13 – Three years after its first telecast, MGM's The Wizard of Oz is shown on television for only the second time, but it gains an even larger viewing audience than its first television outing, spurring CBS to make it an annual tradition.

Three years later, in 1934, Lindgren gave birth to her second child, Karin, who became a translator.

Smith science fiction novel Skylark Three ( originally published in Amazing Stories in 1930 ), the second book of the Skylark tetralogy.

His creations include such masterpieces as Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony-Concerto, Dmitri Shostakovich's two cello concertos, Benjamin Britten's Cello-Symphony ( which emphasizes, as its title suggests, the equal importance of soloist and orchestra ), Henri Dutilleux ' Tout un monde lointain, Witold Lutosławski's cello concerto, Dmitri Kabalevsky's two cello concertos, Aram Khachaturian's Concerto-Rhapsody, Arvo Pärt's Pro et Contra, Alfred Schnittke, André Jolivet and Krzysztof Penderecki second cello concertos, Sofia Gubaidulina's Canticles of the Sun, Luciano Berio's Ritorno degli Snovidenia, Leonard Bernstein's Three Meditations, James MacMillan's cello concerto and Olivier Messiaen's Concert à quatre ( a quadruple concerto for cello, piano, oboe, flute and orchestra ).

Today the composer ( past or present ) of the musical score to an opera or operetta is usually given top billing for the completed work, and the writer of the lyrics relegated to second place or a mere footnote, a notable exception being Gertrude Stein, who received top billing for Four Saints in Three Acts.

Three periods are apparent: the first reacted to the disappointment due to the lack of political and social progress during the 1870s ( e. g. Václav Šolc ); the second was the great return to poetry, especially epic poetry ( e. g. Josef Václav Sládek ); and the third focused on prose ( e. g. Alois Jirásek ).

The Three Colors Trilogy ( Blue, White, and Red ), and Pulp Fiction originally ranked second and third on Ebert's 1994 list ; both were included on his " Best Films of the 1990s " list, but their order had reversed.

Nimoy would go on to direct the second most successful film ( critically and financially ) in the franchise after the 2009 Star Trek film, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home ( 1986 ), and Three Men and a Baby, the highest grossing film of 1987, made him a star director.

Three decades later, after serving 24 years in the United States Senate, Glenn lifted off for a second space flight on October 29, 1998, on Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-95, in order to study the effects of space flight on the elderly.

Three months after the wedding she gave birth to a second son, Nero Claudius Drusus, while he and his elder brother, the four-year-old Tiberius, lived in Octavian's household.

Parizeau became Premier of Quebec in the Quebec election of 1994 ( the second of the Three Periods ).

McLean Stevenson, who had done so once in September 1978 and twice near the end of the second year of this version, appeared in nearly all of Season Three ( 1981 – 1982 ) and became a regular from the eleventh taped week through the end of the run.