3.6.1817

Sender Caroline von Humboldt

Recipient Wilhelm von Humboldt

Humboldt calls Thorvaldsen’s frieze Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon “the most perf...

31.12.1817

Sender Giovanni Battista Sommariva

Recipient Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia

Sommariva authorizes his banker to pay Thorvaldsen a total of 14,000 scudi in instalments of the ...

1.1.1818

Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recipient Giovanni Battista Sommariva

Contract between Thorvaldsen and G.B. Sommariva regarding the marble version of the frieze Alexan...

1.1.1818

Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recipient Giovanni Battista Sommariva

Copy of the contract between Thorvaldsen and G.B. Sommariva concerning the marble version of the ...

1.1.1818

Sender Caroline von Humboldt

Recipient Wilhelm von Humboldt

Count Sommariva has commissioned the frieze Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon in marble fr...

2.1.1818 - 17.12.1825

Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recipient Giovanni Battista Sommariva

List of Sommariva’s payments to Thorvaldsen for the marble version of Alexander the Great’s Entr...

2.1.1818

Sender Caroline von Humboldt

Recipient Christian Daniel Rauch

Thorvaldsen has finally received a commission for the marble version of the frieze Alexander the ...

Antagelig 6.2.1818

Sender Giovanni Battista Sommariva

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Sommariva savner at høre nyt fra Thorvaldsen og udbeder sig en status på udførelsen i marmor af f...

18.3.1818

Sender Giovanni Battista Sommariva

Recipient Luigi Sommariva

Sommariva wants to tell his son in person about his commission for a marble version of Thorvaldse...

31.3.1818

Sender Giovanni Battista Sommariva

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Sommariva informerer om sine rejser og forhindringerne undervejs, der har forsinket hans tilbagev...

7.4.1818

Sender Christian 8.

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

For a long time, the Academy of Fine Arts has wished to possess plaster casts of Thorvaldsen’s wo...

9.5.1818

Sender Herman Schubart

Recipient Christian 8.

Schubart assures the concerned Christian Frederik that the Alexander Frieze for Frederik 6.’s new...

9.5.1818

Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recipient Christian 8.

Thorvaldsen assures the concerned Christian Frederik that the Alexander Frieze for Christiansborg...

9.5.1818

Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recipient Christian 8.

Draft of a letter dated 9.5.1818.

24.8.1818

Sender Redaktørerne ved Wiener Zeitung

Recipient Omnes

The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.

3.9.1818

Sender Giovanni Battista Sommariva

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Sommariva glæder sig over, at Thorvaldsen er sammen med deres fælles ven Herman Schubart, og at h...

25.10.1818

Sender Giovanni Battista Sommariva

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Sommariva er ankommet til Italien. Han har læst i den franske presse, at Frederik 6. har bestilt...

1.4.1819

Sender Giovanni Battista Sommariva

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Sommariva writes that unfortunately he has had to give up his plans to go to Rome. He is proud of...

9.4.1819

Sender Giovanni Battista Sommariva

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

A few days after his previous letter, Sommariva writes to Thorvaldsen again on behalf of the Appi...

3.12.1819

Sender Hermann Ernst Freund

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Freund tells Thorvaldsen about the progress of work in the workshop in Rome. He mentions the work...

28.12.1819

Sender Christian 8.

Recipient Christian 8.

The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.

30.12.1820

Sender Giovanni Battista Sommariva

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Sommariva har hørt, at Thorvaldsen, er vendt tilbage til Rom efter rejsen til Danmark og lykønske...

1821

Sender Sydney Morgan

Recipient Omnes

Extract from Lady Morgan’s book Italy mentioning Thorvaldsen’s workshops.

31.1.1821

Sender Giovanni Battista Sommariva

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Sommariva has received the first reproductions in cameo of the frieze Alexander the Great’s Entry...

16.5.1821

Sender Giovanni Battista Sommariva

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Sommariva henviser til Thorvaldsens brev til ham af 11. april, og beklager at han ikke har kunnet...

20.6.1821

Sender Giovanni Battista Sommariva

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Christian (8.) Frederik og Caroline Amalie har været på besøg i Sommarivas villa ved Comosøen. Th...

13.12.1821

Sender Giovanni Battista Sommariva

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Sommariva skriver til Thorvaldsen fra Paris, hvor han har mødt Christian (8.) Frederik. De har hø...

2.4.1823

Sender Giovanni Battista Sommariva

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Sommariva har hørt om vådeskuddet, der sårede Thorvaldsen. Han har i Firenze talt med Pietro Tene...

18.5.1825

Sender Giovanni Battista Sommariva

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

The room in which the frieze Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon, cf. A505, is to be put up ...

11.6.1825

Sender Giovanni Battista Sommariva

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Sommariva har modtaget brev fra de Sanctis om, at en stor del af Alexanderfrisen, jf. A505, er bl...

5.8.1825

Sender Giovanni Battista Sommariva

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Sommariva glæder sig over, at frisen Alexander den Stores indtog i Babylon, jf. A505, fuldføres, ...

11.4.1826

Sender Ferdinando Dôrhel

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

On behalf of his client, Luigi Sommariva, Dôrhel presses Thorvaldsen for the remaining part of th...

31.8.1826

Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recipient Luigi Sommariva

Thorvaldsen responds to Sommariva’s letter of complaint regarding his father Giovanni Battista So...

31.8.1826

Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recipient Luigi Sommariva

Thorvaldsen explains that G.B. Sommariva wanted to be portrayed at full length together with Thor...

12.1.1827

Sender Louise Salvage de Faverolles

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Copied excerpt of a letter from Salvage de Faverolles to one of Thorvaldsen’s aquaintances, who i...

1890

Sender Francesco Hayez

Recipient Omnes

Two passages from the famous Italian painter Francesco Hayez’s autobiography, in which Thor...