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1803
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Briseis and Achilles, A490.
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Beginning of 1803
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Herman Schubart arrives in Rome and meets Thorvaldsen, probably through Georg Zoëga.
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28.1.1803
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The clay model for Jason with the Golden Fleece is almost done. The model is seen by Friederike Brun, who then finances the original plaster cast, A52.
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Presumably 19.3.1803 - 1815
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Studio at 30 Vicolo della Catena, Piazza Barberini, Rome.
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19.3.1803
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Celebrating the making of the plaster cast of Jason with the Golden Fleece, A52. Thorvaldsen is crowned with a laurel wreath by Ida Brun.
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Not earlier than 19.3. - not later than 21.3.1803
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Thomas Hope sees Jason with the Golden Fleece, A52, in the studio and commissions a marble version of the statue, A822.
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Not earlier than 19.3. - not later than 21.3.1803
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Thorvaldsen’s return to Denmark is temporarily postponed due to Thomas Hope’s commission for Jason with the Golden Fleece, A52, in marble, A822.
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23.3.1803
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Thorvaldsen receives the first part of the payment for Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822 from Thomas Hope.
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23.3.1803 - August 1803
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Finelli & Keller begin work on Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822.
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23.3.1803 - August 1803
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Makes a contract with the sculptors Finelli & Keller for the delivery of a block of marble and the execution of the rough carving of Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822.
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3.4.1803
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Meets Friederike and Ida Brun in the Villa Borghese gardens. Asks Ida to perform artistic poses (attitudes) with the words “oh! just some poses” (“o kuns nogle Stillinger!”).
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13.5.1803
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Attends the farewell party for Friederike Brun in the company of many Roman notabilities.
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Summer 1803
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Thorvaldsen is taken ill.
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Summer 1803
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Spends the summer in Albano, probably in the company of Anna Maria Uhden.
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10.6.1803
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Friederike and Ida Brun leave Rome.
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Presumably September 1803
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Returns to Rome from his summer stay at Albano.
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November 1803
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Herman Schubart encourages his sister Charlotte Schimmelmann to promote Thorvaldsen’s cause in Copenhagen.
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Presumably November 1803 - January 1804
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Meets Adam Gottlob Detlef Moltke.
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November 1803 - January 1804
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Adam Gottlob Detlef Moltke, A212.
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November 1803 - January 1804
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Ivan Vorontsov?, A302.
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November 1803 - January 1804
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Jevdokija Ivanovna Golitsyna, cf. A304.
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Winter 1803 - 1804
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Meets the Russian Countess Irina Vorontsova in Rome.
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