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| Date | Events | Whereabouts | Works |
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| Presumably 1823 | Baptismal Angel, A111, preparatory work for A110. | ||
| Presumably 1823 - 1826 | Sheperd Boy, cf. A177, marble version, City Art Gallery, Manchester. | ||
| Begun 1823 - completed 1827 | Jude Thaddeus, A94. | ||
| Completed 1823 | Andrew, A95, is modelled by Joseph Hermann after a sketch by Thorvaldsen. | ||
| Completed 1823 | Bartholomew, A99, is modelled by Carlesi after a sketch by Thorvaldsen, A100. | ||
| Completed 1823 | James the Less, A91, is modelled either by Angelo Bienaimé or Francesco Bienaimé, after a sketch by Thorvaldsen, A92. | ||
| Completed 1823 | Philip, A93, is modelled by Ferdinand Pettrich after Thorvaldsen’s bozzetto. | ||
| Completed 1823 | Simon Zelotes, A101, is modelled by Emil Wolff after a sketch by Thorvaldsen, A102. | ||
| Completed 1823 | Giuseppe Pacetti models a version of John after Thorvaldsen’s sketch. It is first rejected but then re-used as Jude Thaddeus, which is also rejected in 1827. | ||
| 1823 | Cupid by Anacreon, Winter, A415. | ||
| 1823 | Cupid Triumphant, Examining his Arrow, A24, reworked version of A22. | ||
| 1823 | Trading Post by the River, cf. A510, is modelled as an extension of Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon, cf. A503, for Christiansborg Castle. | ||
| Not earlier than 1823 | Cupid by Anacreon, Winter, A416, reworked version of A415. | ||
| Not earlier than 1823 | Cupid by Anacreon, Winter, A827. | ||
| 25.1.1823 | Franz Erwein von Schönborn commissions marble version of Sheperd Boy, cf. A177, with panpipe at his left foot and marble versions of Cupid with a Swan and Boys picking Fruit, Summer, cf. A411, Cupid and Bacchus, Autumn, cf. A413, and Cupid by Anacreon, Winter, cf. A415. | ||
| 28.1.1823 - 15.7.1823 | The architect Jacques-Ignace Hittorff and the painter and architect Ludwig Zanth (1796-1857) are in Rome and move into the fourth floor of Casa Buti at the suggestion of Karl Joseph Begas’. | ||
| 30.1.1823 | Attends a commemoration for Antonio Canova in the church of Santi Apostoli in Rome. | ||
| 3.2.1823 | Celebrates Carnival with P.O. Brøndsted. | ||
| 6.2.1823 | Awarded the Russian Order of St. Vladimir, N25. | ||
| 9.3.1823 | Probably attends the celebration of his daughter, Elisa Paulsen’s tenth birthday. | ||
| 28.3.1823 | Thorvaldsen is shot accidentally by the young Cesare Buti and wounded in the side and a finger. | ||
| 29.4.1823 | Party of artists to celebrate Thorvaldsen’s recovery from an accidental shot. | ||
| Not later than 9.5.1823 |
Executes a sketch for an oil lamp formed as a statuette of a vestal virgin for Franz Erwein von Schönborn. |
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| 12.5.1823 | Elected member of the Accademia Tiberina in Rome. | ||
| 26.5.1823 | P.O. Brøndsted gets a loan of 2,000 Roman scudi from Thorvaldsen. By way of security, Thorvaldsen gets Brøndsted’s collection of Greek and Roman coins and a collection of books and manuscripts. | ||
| June 1823 | P.O. Brøndsted, on his way to Paris, visits Giovanni Battista Sommariva at Villa Carlotta, where he visits the hall for The Alexander frieze. | ||
| 2.6.1823 | Christian (8.) Frederik recommends H.W. Bissen to Thorvaldsen. | ||
| 20.8.1823 | Pius 7. dies. Thorvaldsen is present at the deathbed. He draws the Pope’s face and perhaps also models a death-mask, L660. | ||
| November 1823 | Ercole Consalvi commissions a monument to Pius 7. for St. Peter’s (sketch A148). | ||
| November - December 1823 | Baptismal Angel, A110. | ||
| Not earlier than December 1823 | Baptismal Angel Kneeling, A781, preparatory work for A112. | ||
| 20.12.1823 | Elected foreign member of the Institut de France / Acadèmie Royale des Beaux-arts. A member was equipped with a uniform, N173, a hat, N174, and a sword, N175. | ||
| End of December 1823 | The Italian student of sculpture Tommaso Gasperini arrives in Rome and becomes Thorvaldsen’s pupil. |