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| Date | Events | Whereabouts | Works |
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| 1.7.1796 | Thorvaldsen’s travel grant takes effect officially. | ||
| 1.7.1802 | Thorvaldsen’s travel grant from the Academy of Fine Arts officially expires. | ||
| 1805 | Begins a sculpture, Mars and Venus, later reworked as Mars Bringing Peace, cf. D174, which in turn becomes the starting point for Mars and Cupid, A7. | ||
| 1.7.1813 | Portrayed by Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein in Rome, (black chalk, 28×21,2 cm, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden). | ||
| 1.7.1822 | Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound visits Thorvaldsen’s workshop in Rome and probably soon after commissions a version of Shepherd Boy, cf. A177. | ||
| 1.7.1825 | The brig St. Croix is loaded with 52 crates containing Thorvaldsen’s works of art; plaster casts in the hold, marble works on the deck. | ||
| 18.3.1835 | Awarded honorary citizenship of Mainz, cf. N35. Does not receive the diploma until his visit to the city 1.7.1841. | ||
| 1.7.1837 | Ludwig 1. rejects the erection of the bronze casts of A530 and A531 on the pedestal of the Maximilian Monument (cf. A128). | ||
| 1.7.1839 | Large dinner party at Conrad Hinrich Donner’s with C.C. Zahrtmann, Sophie Elisabeth Zahrtmann, Christine Stampe, Peter von Scholten (1784-1854) and others. | ||
| 1.7.1841 | Visits the antiquarian museum in Wiesbaden in the morning with Jakob Kraetzer. Returns to Mainz the same day. | ||
| 1.7.1841 | The city of Mainz gives a dinner in Thorvaldsen’s honour at the city hall. Receives the freedom of the city (diploma, N35). Gala performance at the Stadttheater. Cheered from the balcony of the theatre by a large crowd in Gutenbergplatz. Both the square and the Gutenberg-statue are lit by torches. Songs and poems are performed. | ||
| June 1842 | In Rome, Thorvaldsen receives five crates with plaster models of works executed in Denmark that are to be carved in marble. | ||
| 22.6.1842 | Dinner with Alessandro Torlonia, visits Karl von Kolb in the evening. | ||
| 23.6.1842 | Visit from Ludwig Ross. | ||
| 24.6.1842 | Visit from Constantin Hansen and Peter Raadsig. | ||
| 24.6.1842 | Dinner party at the home of J.M. von Wagner. | ||
| 26.6.1842 | Visit from the sculptor B.E. Fogelberg and the painter G.W. Palm (1810-1890). | ||
| 26.6.1842 | Excursion to Torre di Quinto with Johan Bravo and C.F. Holbech. | ||
| 26.6.1842 | Visits Vincenzo Camuccini in the evening. | ||
| 28.6. - 29.6.1842 | Excursions in Rome to see, among others things, the Girandola fireworks with Antonio Savorelli. | ||
| 29.6. - 3.7.1842 | Repairs damaged plaster models, sent from Copenhagen, among others Christ at Emmaus, cf. Nysø18, and Bertel Thorvaldsen with the Statue of Hope, cf. Nysø1. | ||
| 1.7.1842 | Dinner with Kolb. | ||
| Completed 1.7.1843 | Cupid’s Swan Song, A456. |