Comment on Venus Priapus
That is, in the study collections of the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. The Academy had acquired a number of plaster casts of Thorvaldsen’s sculptures and reliefs; cf. the Related Article Commission for the Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen.
Horneman lived in one of the Academy of Fine Arts’ residences, and thus had regular opportunities to visit the specimens of Thorvalden’s art in the Academy’s study collections.
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