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# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:47:36.698Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.