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10.2.1809 Georg Zoëga, C761r, is portrayed on his deathbed.
2.5.1817 The Ponte Molle Society arranges a triumphal procession for Johann Martin von Wagner at a tavern outside Porta Salaria, Rome. Thorvaldsen is probably present.
16.8.1819 Arrives in Stuttgart via Waldenbuch, where Johann Nepomuk Zwerger gets a lift in Thorvaldsen’s carriage.
Lodges at the hotel König von England, just near the Schillerplatz.
Not earlier than 16.8.1819 Visits Johann Heinrich von Dannecker’s studio in Stuttgart.
Presumably 17.8. - 21.8.1819 Attends a party given by Dowager Duchess Louise of Württemberg in Stuttgart, where he praises the collection of paintings owned by Sulpiz Boisserée, Melchior Boisserée and Johann Baptist Bertram.
21.8.1819 Leaves Stuttgart for Heidelberg late in the evening.
25.8. - 26.8.1820 In Rostock, and sees the Monument to field marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher by Johann Gottfried Schadow, inaugurated the year before 26.8.1819.
5.2.1821 Bibliothek der Deutschen is founded in Rome on the initiative of Johann David Passavant, Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen, August Kestner and Ernst Zacharias Platner. Thorvaldsen and Hermann Ernst Freund were among the 58 co-founders.
1826 - 1827 The Ponte Molle Society arranges a triumphal procession for 10 members of the society: Thorvaldsen, Otto Magnus Stackelberg, August Kestner, Johan Niklas Byström, Carl Eggers, Eduard Schmidt von der Launitz, Benjamin Ludwig Jollage, Joseph Anton Koch, Joseph Thürmer (1787-1833) and Wilhelm Stier.
Not later than 9.9.1836 Friedrich Schiller, cf. A770, modelled by Wilhelm Matthiä, is completed.
Not later than 9.9.1836 The Apotheosis of Friedrich Schiller, A135, is modelled by Wilhelm Matthiä.
Not later than 9.9.1836 Griffin and Lyre, A707, modelled by Wilhelm Matthiä.
Not later than 9.9.1836 The Genius of Poetry, A136, is modelled by Wilhelm Matthiä.
Not later than 9.9.1836 The Goddess of Victory, A137, is modelled by Wilhelm Matthiä.
1837 Wilhelm 1. commissions marble versions of Childhood or Spring, cf. A642, Youth or Summerer, cf. A643, Manhood or Autumn, cf. A644, Old Age or Winter, cf. A645, Shepherdess with a Nest of Cupids, cf. A425, and Cupid Complains to Venus about a Bee Sting, cf. A780. Today all in the Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart.
25.3.1837 Thorvaldsen donates plaster casts to the Stuttgart Art School.
9.12.1837 Receives a visit from Sulpiz Boisserée.
8.5.1839 Concert in the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen, celebrating the unveiling of the Schiller monument, cf. A770, in Stuttgart the same day. The surplus from the concert goes to the future Thorvaldsens Museum.
Song by Oehlenschläger and music by Weyse etc. is performed.
8.5.1839 The Schiller monument, cf. A770, is unveiled in Stuttgart.
Summer 1839 Wilhelm 1. visit Thorvaldsen’s workshop and commissions a marble version of the statue Cupid and the Graces, cf. A29, Further, he buys the reliefs The Seasons, cf. A642, A643, A644, A645, Shepherdess with a Nest of Cupids, cf. A425, and Cupid Complains to Venus about a Bee Sting, cf. A780. The reliefs are today at the Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart.
6.7.1841 Arrival in Stuttgart. Lodges at König von England at Schillerplatz.
6.7.1841 Visits the Schiller-monument, cf. A770. Meets Georg von Reinbeck and other members of Verein für Schiller’s Denkmal. The statue and the square are lit by torches, and a choir sings in Thorvaldsen’s honour.
7.7.1841 A deputation from the Stuttgart town government welcomes Thorvaldsen and invites him to attend celebrations in the coming two days.
7.7.1841 Excursion from Stuttgart.
7.7. - 9.7.1841 Visits several sights in Stuttgart and the surrounding country, among them Joseph Anton Gegenbaur’s frescoes in Neues Schloss, Schloss Rosenstein, and the mausoleum to the royal family of Württemberg in Rotenberg with two statues of evangelists after Thorvaldsen’s sketch.
8.7.1841 The Court at Württemberg gives a party in Thorvaldsen’s honour in the pump room at Bad Cannstatt, Stuttgart.
9.7.1841 The city council of Stuttgart gives a party in Thorvaldsen’s honour at the resort of Silberburg. He receives the freedom of the city, cf. N37. A song for the sculptor is sung.
He is escorted back to his hotel by a torchlight procession.
10.7.1841 Travels from Stuttgart.
8.1.1842 The Ponte Molle Society celebrates Thorvaldsen’s “second” arrival in Rome 12.9.1841 in a big party in Palazzo Fiano, Piazza di San Lorenzo, in Rome. He is placed on a throne, the artists pay tribute to him with lights and song, and he is presented with the bajocco order, N91, of the society.
28.4.1842 Celebrates the coming of spring with the Ponte Molle Society at the Cervaro Caves, approximately 8 kilometres north east of Rome. Is awarded the Vielzuvielverdienstorden of the society, N92.