Comment on Jason and the Hope Commission

Cf. Brun, Römisches Leben, op. cit., p. 35. For a more thorough discussion of the reception of Thorvaldsen’s works by his contemporaries, including Fernow’s mention of Jason with the Golden Fleece, A52 (reworked original plaster), see the separate Related Article on the subject, along with the numerous examples collated in the table of references at the bottom of the present article.

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