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Begun 1834
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Horace Vernet, A253.
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1834
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Children Praying, for the Monument to Artur Potocki, A628.
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1834
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Luke, A577.
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1834
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Mark, A576.
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1834
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Bronze versions of the reliefs Hovering Angels (A590 and A591) are placed at the high altar of the Basilica di S. Gaudenzio, Novara.
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Not earlier than 1834
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Bacchante and a Satyr, A354.
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1834 - 1838
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Leonardo Fibonacci, A187.
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1834 - 1838
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Leonardo Fibonacci, A722.
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1.1.1834
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His grandson Alberto is born.
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1.1. - 8.1.1834
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Nemesis attended by the Genii of Punishment and Reward, A364, for Heinrich Mylius’ funerary monument to his son Julius.
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2.1.1834
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His grandson Alberto is baptized in St. Peter’s. Charlotte Frederikke is godmother and Thorvaldsen and Luigi Chiaveri godfathers.
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8.1.1834
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H.C. Andersen visits Thorvaldsen, who encourages him. Andersen gives his poem The Dying Child to the sculptor.
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15.1.1834
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Thorvaldsen is about to fall from a scaffold during the modelling of the horse for the monument to Maximilian 1. (A128).
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24.1.1834
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Elected member of the Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti, Genoa.
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28.1.1834
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Frederik 6.’s birthday is celebrated by Princess Charlotte Frederikke and the Danes living in Rome. Thorvaldsen is probably present.
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February 1834
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Gives up his plans for returning to Denmark this winter.
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Begun 3.2.1834 - completed 28.6.1834
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The statue for the monument Johann Gutenberg, A114. Clay model for the plaster cast, cf. A117 is executed by H.W. Bissen under Thorvaldsen’s supervision.
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11.2.1834
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Frederik 6. approves Thorvaldsen’s donation of his own works and collections to Denmark.
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March - May 1834
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Walter Scott, cf. A255, marble, 58 cm, National Galleries of Scotland.
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8.3.1834
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Thorvaldsen’s Roman birthday is celebrated by the Society of Danish Romans at Christianshavns Borgerdydsskole without the sculptor’s presence. 31 men attend. A song by Christian Winther and a song to Thorvaldsen by F.C. Hillerup are sung.
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29.3.1834
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Walks with H.C. Andersen in Rome.
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31.3.1834
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Says goodbye to the departing H.C. Andersen, writes a greeting in his album, and shows him Nemesis attended by the Genii of Punishment and Reward, A364.
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18.4.1834
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Elected honorary member of the Accademia dei Filomati di Scienze, Lettere e Belle Arti in Lucca.
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Summer 1834
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Hunter on a Horse, A646.
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Summer 1834
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Huntress on a Horse, A647.
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2.8.1834
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H.W. Bissen leaves Rome.
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Autumn 1834
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G.F. Hetsch drafts a proposal for the conversion of the ruins of the Marble Church into a museum dedicated to Thorvaldsen.
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23.10.1834
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Receives a visit from Martinus Rørbye and Ditlev Blunck.
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26.10.1834
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Is godfather to Adam Gottlob Moltke-Huitfeldt’s (1798-1876) son, Vladimir von Moltke-Huitfeldt (1834-1894), in the German Protestant chapel, Palazzo Caffarelli, Rom.
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1.12.1834
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Visits Horace Vernet’s workshop in the company of Peter Wulff and Martinus Rørbye.
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Not later than 18.12.1834
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Monument to the two Poninski Children, A617, prepatory work for A616.
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