Comment on 20.8.1808
Thorvaldsen’s statue of Mars Bringing Peace was – unlike Adonis – in colossal size, which required a much bigger block of marble.
As such a block could not be bought in Rome, it would clearly have been more practical for Thorvaldsen to go to the Carrara marble quarry and have the carving done there.
The commission of the Mars statue did not materialize.
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