Alexander Frieze, Villa Carlotta, Tremezzo
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See also: Alexander Frieze, Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen · Alexander Frieze, Palais Leuchtenberg, Munich · Alexander Frieze, Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome · Alexander Frieze, Panthéon, Paris · Commissions, Survey · Reliefs, Allegories · Reliefs, Classical Mythology · Contemporary Reproductions of Thorvaldsen's Works
Caroline von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Humboldt calls Thorvaldsen’s frieze Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon “the most perf...
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 ...
Caroline von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Count Sommariva has commissioned the frieze Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon in marble fr...
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 ...
Redaktørerne ved Allgemeine Zeitung
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Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva misses hearing news from Thorvaldsen and asks about the progress of the marble version ...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Luigi Sommariva
Sommariva wants to tell his son in person about his commission for a marble version of Thorvaldse...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva writes about his travels and the obstacles along the way that have delayed his return t...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
For a long time, the Academy of Fine Arts has wished to possess plaster casts of Thorvaldsen’s wo...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen assures the concerned Christian Frederik that the Alexander Frieze for Christiansborg...
Herman Schubart
Christian 8.
Schubart assures the concerned Christian Frederik that the Alexander Frieze for Frederik 6.’s new...
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Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva is pleased that Thorvaldsen is with their mutual friend Herman Schubart, and that he ta...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva has arrived in Italy. He has read in the French press that Frederik 6. has commissioned...
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...
Hermann Ernst Freund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Freund tells Thorvaldsen about the progress of work in the workshop in Rome. He mentions the work...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
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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
Sommariva has received the first reproductions in cameo of the frieze Alexander the Great’s Entry...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva regrets that he has not been able to respond to Thorvaldsen’s letter dated April 11 bec...
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...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva thanks Thorvaldsen for having sent the portrait busts of Christian (8.) Frederik and Ca...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommarive has heard about the accidental shot that has wounded Thorvaldsen. In Florence, he has t...
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 ...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva has received a letter from de Sanctis stating that a large part of the frieze Alexander...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva is pleased that the frieze Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon, cf. A505, will be ...
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...
Louise Salvage de Faverolles
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Copied excerpt of a letter from Salvage de Faverolles to one of Thorvaldsen’s aquaintances, who i...
Francesco Hayez
Omnes
Two passages from the famous Italian painter Francesco Hayez’s autobiography, in which Thor...