By Emily Backus

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is exhibiting the spiritual side of two Italian masters this month. After the January 14 opening of a show of four private devotional paintings by Piero della Francesca (1412-1492) - called Close Encounters - the Met just put on show the last seven works of the iconic neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822) for the very first time in the United States.

Canova was famous for his elegant rendering of mythological nudes, like his sensual masterpieces "Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss" at the Louvre in Paris and "The Three Graces" at the Victoria & Albert in London.

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