Reliefs, Classical Mythology
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Kunstakademiet, København
Thorvaldsen presents the relief Numa Pompilius and Egeria, A748, to the Royal Academy. He also ap...
Georg Zoëga
Herman Schubart
Because of illness, Thorvaldsen has had to have the bas-relief Briseis and Achilles cast before h...
Herman Schubart
C.F.F. Stanley
Thorvaldsen is at Montenero, and Schubart writes enthusiastically about The Dance of the Muses on...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart reports that Thorvaldsen’s portrait busts of himself and Jacqueline Schubart, A718...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart wants to know if Thorvaldsen will accept the commission of Baptismal Font, cf. A555,1. B...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen apologizes for his late answer to Schubart’s letter. He thanks him for the comm...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart and his wife have moved from Montenero to Pisa, where they have to spend the winter beca...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart writes that The Dance of the Muses on Helicon, cf. A705, and the portrait busts of himse...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart forwards the freight bill concerning The Dance of the Muses on Helicon, cf. A705, and th...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart has read in a newspaper that Thorvaldsen has been appointed professor at the Academy of ...
Herman Schubart
C.F.F. Stanley
Schubart thanks Stanley for his letter and asks him to tell Thorvaldsen that he will soon receive...
Conrad Rantzau
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Rantzau tells Thorvaldsen that he has sent a bill of exchange for 300 piastres to Rome through Zo...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart hopes that Thorvaldsen has arrived safely in Rome. He mentions the mortally ill Caspar B...
Nicolai Abildgaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Abildgaard is sympathetic to the idea that Thorvaldsen should remain in Rome for the time being b...
Herman Schubart
C.F.F. Stanley
Schubart writes that he has forwarded Stanley’s letter to the Academy of Fine Arts in Copen...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen apologizes for not having been in contact with regard to the commission for a monumen...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart summarizes to Thorvaldsen their mutual financial status and tells him to inform him if h...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Conrad Rantzau
Thorvaldsen tells Conrad Rantzau how work on his commissions is progressing. The portrait bust, c...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen thanks Schubart for a bill of exchange. He has had financial problems because the war...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen
Thorvaldsen suggests subjects from Greek mythology for the reliefs for the Christiansborg Palace ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen
Draft for letter: Thorvaldsen suggests motifs from Greek mythology for the reliefs for the Christ...
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...
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace informs Thorvaldsen that he will receive an adv...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen is unable to come to Montenero because of too much work. He has put off sending casts...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Draft: Thorvaldsen is unable to come to Montenero because of too much work. The Dance of the Muse...
Tidligst september 1807, senest august 1810
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Conrad Rantzau
Thorvaldsen tells Conrad Rantzau that his bust, cf. A211, is ready to be shipped, and that the re...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Charlotte Schimmelmann
Thorvaldsen informs Schimmelmann that the baptismal font, cf. A555,1, A555,2, A555,3, A555,4, whi...
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Antagelig omkring oktober 1810
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Pierre de Balck
Thorvaldsen informs de Balck that the commissioned works, a bas-relief representing Hector with P...
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, C.R.W. Wiedemann
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.R.W. Wiedemann asks Thorvaldsen to execute a monument to his niece Auguste Böhmer, A700-A703. T...
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Rauch writes that Thorvaldsen has finished Cupid Holding a Butterfly to Hurt it with an Arrow and...
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schelling thanks Thorvaldsen for accepting the commision for Monument to Auguste Böhmer, A700-A70...
Antonio Moglia
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Receipt for payment of Antonio Moglia’s marble work on the relief Venus, Mars and Cupid in ...
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...
Peder Malling
Christian 8.
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
Elisa Baciocchi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Elisa Baciocchi wants to change the subject of one of the reliefs which she intends to commission...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted advises Thorvaldsen to return to Denmark, at least for a year. He encloses letters for ...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon asks Thorvaldsen to complete and send three commissioned marble reliefs as soon as possi...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon asks Thorvaldsen to buy some antique objects for his friend Alexander Baillie and to res...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon writes that he, Alexander Baillie, and his brother Hans Carl Knudtzon had a pleasant jou...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon has talked to the German publisher and printer Johann Friedrich Wenner about the publica...
J.C. Ulrich
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ulrich asks when the works commissioned by Alexander Baillie and Jørgen Knudtzon will be ready fo...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon writes that he has returned to Norway. He looks forward to seeing Thorvaldsen in Copenha...
John Russell
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Russell asks Thorvaldsen to complete two reliefs, Briseis and Achilles, cf. A490, and Priam Plead...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Jørgen Knudtzon
Thorvaldsen writes that he has been very busy working and showing his workshop to English visitor...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi presses Thorvaldsen for an answer to his letter of 27.4.1818 and repeats the contents of...
B.S. Ingemann
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Excerpt of Ingemann’s Reiselyren, which describes some of Thorvaldsen’s works.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Atanazy Raczyński
Thorvaldsen regrets that he cannot send Ganymede Offering the Cup, cf. A41, to Raczyński as the s...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi presses Thorvaldsen for an answer concerning the monument to Thomas Maitland, cf. A258 an...
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.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
Redaktørerne ved Allgemeine Zeitung
Omnes
Allgemeine Zeitung reports on Thorvaldsen’s visit to Berlin and Dresden, on his coming visi...
Philip Hunt
Omnes
Texts about three of Thorvaldsen’s works: Briseis and Achilles, cf. A490, Priam Pleads with...
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. ...
Johann Martin von Wagner
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Wagner writes that progress is being made on the works commissioned by Schönborn from Thorvaldsen.
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Johann Martin von Wagner
Schönborn writes that the portrait bust of Crown Prince Ludwig (1.) of Bavaria, cf. A233, commiss...
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Accounts for the roughhewing of the relief Cupid Received by Anacreon, Winter, A827,
Guillaume Bertrand-Favre
Giuseppe Basseggio
Bertrand-Favre asks the art dealer Basseggio to send a cast of Thorvaldsen’s bas-relief The...
Johann Martin von Wagner
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Wagner mentions that a carved gemstone after Thorvaldsen’s Cupid Received by Anacreon, Winter, cf...
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 ...
Moritz Oppenheim
Bertel Thorvaldsen, Emil Wolff
Oppenheim has returned safely from a journey to Northern Italy and the southern part of Germany. ...
Johann Martin von Wagner
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Wagner writes that Thorvaldsen is particularly late in completing the works commissioned from him...
Ferdinando Dôrhel
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On behalf of his client, Luigi Sommariva, Dôrhel presses Thorvaldsen for the remaining part of th...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Luigi Sommariva
Thorvaldsen responds to Sommariva’s letter of complaint regarding his father Giovanni Battista So...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Luigi Sommariva
Thorvaldsen explains that G.B. Sommariva wanted to be portrayed at full length together with Thor...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
An inquiry about Thorvaldsen’s sculptural decorations for the Church of Our Lady and Christ...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian (8.) Frederik wants to know which of Thorvaldsen’s works wil be sent home in the ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen
Thorvaldsen lists the works which will be ready to be sent to Denmark in the spring of 1827. Extr...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen
One of three draft letters, in Thorvaldsen’s own hand, of a fourth draft letter dated 7.2.1...
Johan Gunder Adler
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Concerning the way in which Thorvaldsen’s loan to Christian (8.) Frederik is to be paid bac...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The letter expresses dissatisfaction with the number of works for the Church of Our Lady and Chri...
Kirkebygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
In consequence of a royal ordinance, Thorvaldsen is asked by the Building Commission for the Chur...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen is very disappointed about the postponement of the shipment to Denmark of Thorvaldsen...
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
In consequence of a royal ordinance, the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace ask Thorva...
Johan Gunder Adler, Hermann Ernst Freund
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Adler writes to the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace, quoting a letter dated 30.6.18...
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Studio account of the work on the marble relief Venus, Mars and Cupid in the smithy of Vulcan, cf...
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...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Luigi Bienaimé
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Frederik Ferdinand Friis
Just Mathias Thiele
Thorvaldsen’s own comments to the manuscript of J.M. Thiele’s first biography of Thorvaldsen.
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon reports that Thorvaldsen’s statues of Venus, A853, Ganymede Offering the Cup, A85...
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...
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...
Ippolito Fenaroli
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Fenaroli writes to Thorvaldsen from Naples to recommend his friend Luini, who is travelling to Ro...
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...
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A follow-up to the letter of 21.8.1832, in which the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palac...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen expresses his gratitude for two letters from the Building Commission for Christiansbo...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian (8.) Frederik Is pleased that Thorvaldsen intends to come to Copenhagen in the spring o...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hansen hopes to see Thorvaldsen and his works for Christiansborg Palace and the Church of Our Lad...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The corvette Galathea will arrive at Leghorn around 1.7.1833, and Thorvaldsen is asked to have th...
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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 ...
Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
Omnes
Thorvaldsen has completed the relief The Fates, A366. He is working on 15-16 new sculptures and w...
Ludwig von Hofer
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hofer acknowledges receipt of payment for work on the marble versions of the reliefs Pan and a Sa...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen
Thorvaldsen is in bed with a severe cold. The last five pieces of the Alexander Frieze are now re...
Luigi Biondi, Gustav Pfizer
Omnes
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
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...
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
List of reliefs by Thorvaldsen, probably corresponding to the ones purchased by Wilhelm 1.
Hans Puggaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Puggaard is worried about Thorvaldsen’s health as he has heard about the outbreak of cholera in R...
Friedrich Stammann
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Friedrich Stammann recommends the Austrian Count Harrach to Thorvaldsen and asks Thorvaldsen to i...
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...
Adam Oehlenschläger
Caroline Amalie, Christian 8.
Poem to King Christian 8. and Queen Caroline Amalie on the occasion of their silver anniversary 2...
Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt
Omnes
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
Hans Puggaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Puggaard writes that they have put the roof tree on Thorvaldsens Museum. He and a few others have...
Ludvig Müller
Christian 8.
Müller sends a report to Christian 8. on Danish artists in Rome. He gives a detailed description ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Small fragment of a stamped letter on which Thorvaldsen has made some notes in pencil.
Jonas Collin
Christian 8.
Collin has learned that his first letter has not arrived, so he repeats the essence of its conten...
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.
Christine Stampe
Jonas Collin
Stampe has received a letter from the German painter General C.W. von Heideck, in which he asks a...
Gustav Edvard Brock
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
Brock sends the list of the objects in Thorvaldsen’s estate that Christine Stampe lays clai...
Federico Odorici
Omnes
In his guide to the town of Brescia, Odorici also describes the private collections in the town. ...
Emilie Jensine Eckersberg, Albert Thorvaldsen Wilckens, C.F. Wilckens
C.F. Wilckens
Emilie Eckersberg writes to Thorvaldsen’s former valet in order to aks him to help her sell...
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...
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Excerpt from the catalogue of the Fenaroli Avogadro art collection. Among the works mentioned is ...
Redaktørerne ved La Sentinella bresciana
Omnes
In a local newspaper from Brescia, a citizen expresses his regret that the valuable art collectio...
Redaktørerne ved La Sentinella bresciana
Omnes
A local newspaper from Brescia writes that the art collection of the noble Fenaroli family has be...
Francesco Hayez
Omnes
Two passages from the famous Italian painter Francesco Hayez’s autobiography, in which Thor...