# Bertel Thorvaldsen

> A Danish sculptor who spent four decades in Rome carving neoclassical marble and became so central to 19th-century European taste that when he finally came home, they built him a museum while he was still alive.

*Danish sculptor (1770–1844)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Artist
- **Category:** Artists
- **Born:** 1770-11-19
- **Died:** 1844-03-24
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Thorvaldsen was born in Copenhagen on 19 November 1770 to a working-class Danish-Icelandic family, and entered the Royal Danish Academy of Art at eleven while working alongside his father, a wood carver. He won enough honors and medals to earn a stipend to Rome in 1797, and he stayed. For forty-one years he ran a large workshop there, working in a heroic neoclassical style that made him the heir to Antonio Canova — his patrons spread across the continent. He carved the statues of Copernicus and Józef Poniatowski in Warsaw, Maximilian I in Munich, and the tomb of Pope Pius VII in St. Peter's, the only work by a non-Catholic permitted inside. When he returned to Denmark in 1838 he was received as a national hero, and the Thorvaldsen Museum rose next to Christiansborg Palace to hold his work. He died on 24 March 1844 and is buried in its courtyard.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 56.3 / 100
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- **Now attention:** 23.9 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 60.0 / 100

## Topics
#Artists, #Artist, #Sculpture, #Early Modern Era

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