Reliefs, Allegories
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen commissions works from Thorvaldsen. For the façade of Christiansborg Palace, he wants...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen
Thorvaldsen suggests subjects from Greek mythology for the reliefs for the Christiansborg Palace ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen has received commissions from C.F. Hansen and the Building Commission for Christiansb...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen suggests that the statues of Solon and Lycurgus for the Copenhagen city hall and cour...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The building commission will forward an advance payment at 1000 scuid to Thorvaldsen. Hansen sugg...
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Rauch writes that Thorvaldsen has finished Cupid Holding a Butterfly to Hurt it with an Arrow and...
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Rauch writes about the choice of marble. He finds it offensive that Thorvaldsen publishes his wor...
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Thorvaldsen looks well in spite of his severe pains. He is working on the frieze Alexander the Gr...
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Rauch’s portrait of Thorvaldsen, Dep.31, is praised and is very lifelike. He is going to send a c...
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Rauch sends the promised engravings of Thorvaldsen’s reliefs through Count von Schulenburg-Witzen...
Elisa Baciocchi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Elisa Baciocchi wants to change the subject of one of the reliefs which she intends to commission...
Guillaume Bertrand-Favre
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bertrand-Favre cancels his commission for two bas-reliefs because they will be placed too high o...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted wonders why he has had no answer to the commission for a monument transmitted in his la...
Paolo Prossalendi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Prossalendi forwards a commission for a monument to the British governor-general Thomas Maitland,...
Dionisio Bulzo
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bulzo gives instructions concerning the commission for a monument to the British governor-general...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen has to postpone his trip to Denmark because he has to finish John Russell’s com...
Caroline von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Humboldt calls Thorvaldsen’s frieze Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon “the most perf...
Clemens Metternich
Maria Leopoldina von Metternich-Winneburg
In Rome, Metternich has just commissioned two reliefs from Thorvaldsen; they are to be placed in ...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi informs Thorvaldsen that he will act as an intermediary concerning the commission for a m...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi writes that Dionisio Bulzo himself will visit Thorvaldsen and answer all the sculptorR...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia
Sommariva authorizes his banker to pay Thorvaldsen a total of 14,000 scudi in instalments of the ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Contract between Thorvaldsen and G.B. Sommariva regarding the marble version of the frieze Alexan...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Copy of the contract between Thorvaldsen and G.B. Sommariva concerning the marble version of the ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
List of Sommariva’s payments to Thorvaldsen for the marble version of Alexander the Great’s Entr...
Caroline von Humboldt
Christian Daniel Rauch
Thorvaldsen has finally received a commission for the marble version of the frieze Alexander the ...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi writes that the cast of a bust of Thomas Maitland, cf. G342, has finally arrived in Venic...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi has apparently received a letter from Thorvaldsen which has crossed his own letter to the...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva misses hearing news from Thorvaldsen and asks about the progress of the marble version ...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva writes about his travels and the obstacles along the way that have delayed his return t...
Dionisio Bulzo
Bertel Thorvaldsen
At Thorvaldsen’s request, Bulzo explains the meaning of the subject for the relief which is...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi has forwarded Thorvaldsen’s questions about the monument to Thomas Maitland, cf. t...
Vincenz Rüttimann
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Despite the prospect of only a modest payment, Thorvaldsen has agreed to execute a model for the ...
Jørgen Koch
Jonas Collin
Koch writes about Thorvaldsen’s works and commissions. The sculptor has completed Mercury a...
Vincenz Rüttimann
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Thorvaldsen has not yet made the promised draft of the monument to the fallen Swiss Guards, cf. D...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi presses Thorvaldsen for an answer to his letter of 27.4.1818 and repeats the contents of...
Anne Proby
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Caroline von Humboldt
Christian Daniel Rauch
Thorvaldsen will not accompany Herman Schubart to Denmark but will leave in the spring in the com...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva is pleased that Thorvaldsen is with their mutual friend Herman Schubart, and that he ta...
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Workshop accounts for the week of late September-early October 1818.
B.S. Ingemann
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Two poems to Night, A901, and Day, A902. In “Night”, the stars, the moon, and a landscape are evo...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva has arrived in Italy. He has read in the French press that “Frederik 6.”: /...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Luigi Porro Lambertenghi
Thorvaldsen conveys his thanks for the valuable box and the words of praise that he has received ...
Clemens Metternich
Dorothea Lieven
Metternich describes his garden. He has furnished a salon with Italian objects, in which he also ...
Clemens Metternich
Dorothea Lieven
Metternich has prepared space for Thorvaldsen’s reliefs Night, cf. A369 and Day, cf. A370, in a p...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller informs Pfyffer von Altishofen that Thorvaldsen is delighted at the idea of having the mon...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva writes that unfortunately he has had to give up his plans to go to Rome. He is proud of...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A few days after his previous letter, Sommariva writes to Thorvaldsen again on behalf of the Appi...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi presses Thorvaldsen for an answer concerning the monument to Thomas Maitland, cf. A258 an...
Elisabeth Chitrowo
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Elizabeth Chitrowo writes to Thorvaldsen in order to persuade him to execute a bas-relief for a f...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller reports that the small model for the monument to the Swiss guards in Lucerne, cf. Dying Li...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller reports that both models of the monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, have be...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller gives instructions concerning measurements and special circumstances in connection with th...
Redaktørerne ved Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn
Omnes
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
Pietro Tenerani
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva has heard that Thorvaldsen has returned to Rome after his trip to Denmark and congratul...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian (8.) Frederik and Caroline Amalie have visited Sommariva’s villa by Lake Como. Th...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva writes to Thorvaldsen from Paris, where he has met Christian (8.) Frederik. They have h...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Giovanni Edoardo De Pecis
Thorvaldsen writes to De Pecis about the two reliefs Day, cf. A902, and Night, cf. A901 executed...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hans Henrik Gunnerus
Thorvaldsen responds to Gunnerus’ letter of 16.3.1822. He feels sympathy for Gunnerus and his unh...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hans Henrik Gunnerus
Thorvaldsen responds to Gunnerus’ letter of 16.3.1822. He feels sympathy for Gunnerus and his unh...
Anton Endres
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
A survey of works commissioned from Thorvaldsen in 1823 by Schönborn, cf. A177, A233, A827, A411 ...
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schönborn forwards the contract for his commission from Thorvaldsen and asks the sculptor to ackn...
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schönborn writes that he has already paid 1,000 scudi, and that Thorvaldsen can draw the remainde...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Contract signed by Thorvaldsen concerning Schönborn’s commission of the statue Shepherd Boy, cf. ...
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Johann Martin von Wagner
Schönborn has heard that Thorvaldsen will execute another Anacreontic relief as a companion piece...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva har hørt om vådeskuddet, der sårede Thorvaldsen. Han har i Firenze talt med Pietro Tene...
François Gabriel de Bray
Bertel Thorvaldsen
De Bray has received the crates with the two reliefs Night, cf. A369, and Day, cf. A370, and his ...
Johann Martin von Wagner
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Wagner writes that progress is being made on the works commissioned by Schönborn from Thorvaldsen.
Jørgen Conrad de Falsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Falsen reminds Thorvaldsen that he has commissioned a monument to his late wife. However, the mem...
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Johann Martin von Wagner
Schönborn writes that the portrait bust of Crown Prince Ludwig (1.) of Bavaria, cf. A233, commiss...
Hans Henrik Gunnerus
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gunnerus informs Thorvaldsen that he has handed over his deed of gift of 24.5.1822 and the owners...
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Regnskab for grovhugningen af relieffet Amor hos Anakreon, Vinteren, A827, udført i græsk marmor.
Hans Henrik Gunnerus
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gunnerus has heard that the relief Caritas, cf. A598, will arrive in Copenhagen from Leghorn the ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Simon Moritz von Bethmann
Thorvaldsen recommends the painter Moritz Oppenheim warmly to Simon von Bethmann and takes the op...
Johann Martin von Wagner
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Wagner mentions that a carved gemstone after Thorvaldsen’s Cupid Received by Anacreon, Winter, cf...
Augusta Amalia von Leuchtenberg
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Receipt of payment for four marble reliefs from the estate of Eugène de Beauharnais: Hygieia and ...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The room in which the frieze Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon, cf. A505, is to be put up ...
Johann Martin von Wagner
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Wagner writes that Thorvaldsen is particularly late in completing the works commissioned from him...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva is pleased that the frieze Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon, cf. A505, will be ...
Jørgen Conrad de Falsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Falsen confirms delivery of two reliefs from Thorvaldsen. He is dissatisfied that one is small an...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Jørgen Conrad de Falsen
Thorvaldsen tries to formulate an answer to Falsen’s criticism of the two reliefs he has received...
Hermann Ernst Freund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The crates with Thorvaldsens art works has arrived in Leghorn. They have been reloaded on a Danis...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thomas Hope
Thorvaldsen sends Hope the statue of Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822, 25 years after the contr...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thomas Hope
Thorvaldsen sends Hope the statue of Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822, 25 years after the contr...
Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
Omnes
Thorvaldsen’s four marble reliefs for the main portal of Christiansborg Palace have just been ins...
Frederik Ferdinand Friis
Just Mathias Thiele
Thorvaldsens egne kommentarer til manuskriptet til J.M. Thieles første Thorvaldsen-biografi.
Thomas Hope
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hope gratefully acknowledges receipt of Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822, the portrait busts of...
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Ludwig Schorn
Schönborn has read that Thorvaldsen is in Munich, and therefore he would like Schorn to ask the s...
Ludwig Schorn
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Schorn has complied with Schönborn’s wish and sends Thorvaldsen’s response regarding the progress...
Rembrandt Peale
Omnes
Peale describes his impression of Thorvaldsen, his works, and his studio practice. He is critical...
Maria De Pecis
Paolo Tosio
Il documento attesta che Maria De Pecis ha ricevuto 3000 lire da Paolo Tosio per i due bassorilie...
Carlo Carli
Paolo Tosio
Il notaio Carli scrive a Tosio per confermargli che potrà aquistare i due tondi con Il Giorno, cf...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
For unknown reasons, the letter has been severely damaged. See instead the draft of the letter fo...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian Frederik has heard that the Alexander Frieze, cf. A503, and Christ, cf. A82, and John t...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Clarification of circumstances relating to the commissions for Christiansborg Palace and the Chur...
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Frederik 6. has approved C.F. Hansen’s drawings for the great hall and two adjoining apartments o...
Alessandro Antonelli
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Alessandro Antonelli
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A follow-up to the letter of 21.8.1832, in which the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palac...
Alessandro Antonelli
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
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List of the works by Thorvaldsen that are to be sent to Copenhagen with the corvette Galathea in ...
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List of the works by Thorvaldsen that are to be sent to Copenhagen with the corvette Galathea in ...
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
Andersen visits Thorvaldsen for the first time in Rome. He seeks him in vain in his workshop but ...
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
Andersen has visited St. Peter’s Basilica, where he saw Thorvaldsen’s monument to Pius 7., cf. A1...
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
Andersen has visited Thorvaldsen and was comforted and encouraged by him after having told him ab...
Ludwig von Hofer
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hofer acknowledges receipt of payment for work on the marble versions of the reliefs Pan and a Sa...
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
Andersen has visited Thorvaldsen for the last time before his departure from Rome. He was shown t...
Presumably after 1836, before 1841
F. Alleyne McGeachy
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Alleyne McGeachy recommends his wife’s younger brother to Thorvaldsen, hoping that the sculptor w...
Alexander Grant
Bertel Thorvaldsen
With the bearer of the letter, Grant sends Thorvaldsen 100 scudi to be deducted from Charles Bowy...
Melchiorre Missirini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Missirini thanks Thorvaldsen for the relief Cupid Riding on a Lion, which the sculptor has given ...
Hans Puggaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Puggaard is impatient for news from Thorvaldsen. He reminds him to send the marble relief The Gra...
Marie Lehmann, Bolette Puggaard, Hans Puggaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hans Puggaard has heard that the relief The Graces Listening to Cupid’s Song, A601, is finished a...
Hans Puggaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Puggaard writes about all the preparations made in order to get Thorvaldsen and his works home wi...
Henrik Hertz
Omnes
Song by Henrik Hertz for the celebration of Thorvaldsen at the party at the Hôtel d’Angleterre in...
Antagelig 1839-1840, senest 1843
Adam Oehlenschläger
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Oehlenschläger writes a poem to accompany the poem he has written as an illustration of Thorvalds...
Antagelig 1839-1840, senest 1843
Adam Oehlenschläger
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Oehlenschläger’s poem written as an illustration of Thorvaldsen’s relief The Ages of Love, A426. ...
Just Mathias Thiele
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thiele asks Thorvaldsen to execute a monument to the recently deceased King Frederik 6. He has su...
Adam Oehlenschläger
Caroline Amalie, Christian 8.
Poem to King Christian 8. and Queen Caroline Amalie on the occasion of their silver anniversary 2...
Frederik 6.-kommissionen, J.P. With
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On behalf of the commission for a monument to Frederik 6. on the hill at Skanderborg Castle, , J....
Hans Puggaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Puggaard writes that they have put the roof tree on Thorvaldsens Museum. He and a few others have...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Information about the expected arrival at Leghorn of the frigate Thetis and about the sepulchral ...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
A short summary of a letter to Thorvaldsen with information about the frigate Thetis and the sepu...
Just Mathias Thiele
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thiele reports news from Copenhagen, e.g. that Christian 8. will send a frigate to Italy to fetch...
After 1.2.1842, before 15.2.1842
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
Sixth draft of the letter dated 15.2.1842. The draft is considerably longer than the final letter.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen confirms receipt of the letter saying that a frigate will be sent to Italy in order t...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Helena Ponińska
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Small fragment of a stamped letter on which Thorvaldsen has made some notes in pencil.
Gottfried Rosenberg
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gottfried Rosenberg writes to Thorvaldsen and asks him to send a bill of exchange for 1,000 rix-d...
H.P. Holst, Redaktørerne ved Ny Portefeuille
Omnes
The text reports on the final form of the moment to Frederik 6. on the hill at Skanderborg Castle...
Johann Scholl
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
Scholl testifies that the version of the relief The Graces Listening to Cupid’s Song , A602 that ...
Johan Bravo
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Gustav Edvard Brock
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
Brock sends the list of the objects in Thorvaldsen’s estate that Christine Stampe lays clai...
Tidligst 1878, senest 1905 (1835-1836)
Charles Bowyer Adderley
Omnes
Adderley describes his stay in Rome in 1835-36, when he stayed with Thorvaldsen for a time. He wa...
Francesco Hayez
Omnes
Two passages from the famous Italian painter Francesco Hayez’s autobiography, in which Thor...