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1803 Briseis and Achilles, A490.
Beginning of 1803 Herman Schubart arrives to Rome and meets Thorvaldsen, the encounter is probably organised by Georg Zoëgas.
28.1.1803 The clay model for Jason with the Golden Fleece is almost done. The model is seen by Friederike Brun, who then finances the original plaster cast, A52.
19.3.1803 Party celebrating the making of the plaster cast of Jason with the Golden Fleece, A52. Thorvaldsen is crowned with a laurel wreath by Ida Brun.
Not earlier than 19.3. - not later than 21.3.1803 Thomas Hope sees Jason with the Golden Fleece, A52, in the studio and orders a marble version of the statue, A822.
Not earlier than 19.3. - not later than 21.3.1803 Thorvaldsen’s return to Denmark is postponed due to Thomas Hope’s order on Jason with the Golden Fleece, A52, in marble, A822.
23.3.1803 Thorvaldsen receives the first part of the payment of Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822 from Thomas Hope.
23.3.1803 - August 1803 Finelli & Keller begin working on Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822.
23.3.1803 - August 1803 Incurs a contract with the sculptors Finelli & Keller on the delivery of a block of marble and the execution of the basal carving of Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822.
3.4.1803 Meets Friederike and Ida Brun in the Villa Borghese park. Asks Ida to perform artistic poses (attituder) with the words “oh! just some poses” (“o kuns nogle Stillinger!”).
13.5.1803 Takes part in the farewell party celebrating Friederike Brun in the company of many nobilities of Rome.
Summer 1803 Thorvaldsen is taken ill.
Summer 1803 Spends the summer in Albano, probably in the company of Anna Maria Uhden.
Presumably September 1803 Returns to Rome from his summer stay in Albano.
Autumn 1803 Gets acquainted with Caroline and Wilhelm von Humboldt.
November 1803 Herman Schubart encourages his sister Charlotte Schimmelmann to promote Thorvaldsen’s cause in Copenhagen.
Presumably November 1803 - January 1804 Meets Adam Gottlob Detlef Moltke.
November 1803 - January 1804 Adam Gottlob Detlef Moltke, A212.
November 1803 - January 1804 Ivan Vorontsov?, A302.
November 1803 - January 1804 Jevdokija Ivanovna Golitsyna, cf. A304.
Winter 1803 - 1804 Meets the Russian countess Irina Vorontsova in Rome.