Bertel Thorvaldsen
Danish sculptor (1770–1844)
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- Fame56.3
- Momentum4.5
- Artists rank#246
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Lived 1770–1844, aged 74
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Updated 2026-06-09
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.
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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, t…
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