Thorvaldsen's Works, Conceptualization
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...
Elisa Baciocchi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Elisa Baciocchi wants to change the subject of one of the reliefs which she intends to commission...
Georg Wilhelm Wilding
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Prince of Butera has asked for 100 sequins to be paid to Thorvaldsen and hopes that they have...
Anna Potocka
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Countess Anna Potocka describes the excellent qualities of the late Count Włodzimierz Potocki, bo...
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Latin version of George Byron’s name, followed by two literary quotations by Virgil and Ja...
Stanisław Mokronowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
In his capacity as member of a committee, Mokronowski writes to Thorvaldsen to ask him if he is w...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanisław Mokronowski
Thorvaldsen accepts the commission for an equestrian statue of Józef Poniatowski, cf. A123, and a...
Stanisław Mokronowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mokronowski thanks Thorvaldsen for accepting the commission for the equestrian statue of Józef Po...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanisław Mokronowski
Thorvaldsen notes that his conditions for executing the equestrian statue of Józef Poniatowski ha...
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...
Stanisław Mokronowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mokronowski answers two letters from Thorvaldsen of March 1818. He also sends a specification of ...
Stanisław Mokronowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen’s last letter has been received with pleasure. The committee is now convinced of his ...
Stanisław Mokronowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mokronowski stresses that the committee has complete confidence in Thorvaldsen’s execution ...
Franciszek Skibicki
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Skibicki tells Thorvaldsen the Countess Felix Potocka, who is on the point of leaving for Italy, ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sulpiz Boisserée
Thorvaldsen is flattered and accepts a commission to execute a frieze with bas-reliefs for a monu...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanisław Mokronowski
A supplementary contract which elaborates the conditions of the original contract of 8.7.1818. A ...
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...
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...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen is very disappointed about the postponement of the shipment to Denmark of Thorvaldsen...
Nicolas Louis Planat de la Faye
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Planat de la Faye tells Thorvaldsen that Duchess Augusta Amalia von Leuchtenberg is very pleased ...
Verein für Schiller's Denkmal
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Schiller Association commissions a monument to the poet Friedrich Schiller. The Association w...
John Cam Hobhouse
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hobhouse has read Thorvaldsen’s letter to the subcommittee and is now able to send the payment of...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Clarification of circumstances relating to the commissions for Christiansborg Palace and the Chur...
Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt
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Dorota Barbara Czartoryska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Czartoryska encloses a note from Zofia Potocka and emphasizes that the latter is very pleased wit...
Zofia Potocka
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Potocka sends Thorvaldsen a portrait of her mother-in-law, Julia Potocka, to be used as a model f...
Justin Ostrowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ostrowski asks Thorvaldsen to create a monument to a 21-year-old man for the cathedral in Krakow....
Zofia Potocka
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Zofia Potocka thanks Thorvaldsen for having accepted to draw the monument to Artur Potocki. Inste...
Zofia Potocka
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Zofia Potocka thanks Thorvaldsen for having accepted to draw the monument to Artur Potocki. Inste...
Helena Ponińska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A comprehensive corrective to a sketch made by Thorvaldsen, probably A617, for the sepulchral rel...
Helena Ponińska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen is asked to make further adjustments to his sketch for the monument to Ponińska’s two...
Helena Ponińska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ponińska asks Thorvaldsen to send the sketch for the sepulchral relief she has commissioned from ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Goethe-kommissionen
Thorvaldsen declares himself willing to execute a monument to J.W. von Goethe. However, he wants ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Goethe-kommissionen
Draft letter. Thorvaldsen is ready to execute a model for a monument to J.W. von Goethe. However,...
Goethe-kommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen is thanked for his acceptance of the commission to execute a model for a monument to ...
Goethe-kommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Copy (abbreviated) of an earlier letter. Thorvaldsen is thanked for his acceptance of the commiss...
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Just Mathias Thiele
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thiele asks Thorvaldsen to execute a monument to the recently deceased King Frederik 6. He has su...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Goethe-kommissionen
Thorvaldsen is pleased with the Committee’s positive reaction to his first sketch for the Goethem...
Goethe-kommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Committee has received Thorvaldsen’s new sketch for the Goethe monument. They fully approve o...
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....
Redaktørerne ved For tre Skilling
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Redaktørerne ved Fædrelandet, NN
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