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Something wrong?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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Bertel Thorvaldsen portrait
Baronesse Stampes erindringer om Thorvaldsen
Berlin, Kreuzberg, Bergmannstrasse, Dreifaltigkeitsfriedhof II, Grab Henrich Steffens
Bertel thorwaldsen, monumento ad andrea appiani con le tre grazie, 1826, 03.JPG?width=1200)
Brahetrol(32Romansk granitfont)
Helligaandskirken Copenhagen font detail
Hornefyn20Døbefont af Thorvaldsen
Jagemann-Atelier and residence of Friedrich von Amerling, ca. 1860Awards
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About this person
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.
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