Comment on 16.2.1807

This statement is almost like an artistic creed for Thorvaldsen. The idea of Greek antique art and Greek mythology as the highest artistic ideal and its essential embodiment was not just Thorvaldsen’s. It is a fundamental neoclassical idea from Johann Joachim Winckelmann and on.
As a result of the precedence of Greek mythological subjects, Thorvaldsen did not often use subjects from Norse mythology. See more about this in Norse Mythology.

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