Comment on Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion) - a national-political monument with built-in controversy
Cf. Wilckens, Træk af Thorvaldsens Konstner- og Omgangsliv, samlede til Familielæsning [Features of Thorvaldsen’s Artistic and Social Life, Collected for Family Reading], Copenhagen 1874, pp. 138-139, republished under the title Thorvaldsens sidste år: Optegnelser af hans kammertjener [Thorvaldsen’s Last Year: Memoirs of His Valet], Copenhagen 1973, pp. 66-67.
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