The Thorvaldsens Museum Archives

Comment on 12.10.1799

A copy of the head of one of the so-called Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux, on Monte Cavallo on the Quirinal Hill in Rome.
Thorvaldsen himself owned copies of the heads of both Dioscuri in the original size, which are now in Thorvaldsens Museum, L123 and L124.

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