5.10.1833 - The Thorvaldsens Museum Archives


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No. 6221 of 10246

Sender	Date	Recipient
H.C. Andersen [+] Sender’s Location Pisa	5.10.1833 [+] Dating based on Dateringen fremgår af dagbogen.	H.C. Andersen [+] Recipient’s Location Pisa
Abstract Andersen visits the cemetery Campo Santo in Pisa, where he sees Thorvaldsen’s relief Monument to Vaccà Berlinghieri, A613. Andersen thinks that Thorvaldsen has given the healing Tobias in the monument his own features.

Sender

Date

Recipient

H.C. Andersen [+]

Sender’s Location

Pisa

5.10.1833 [+]

Dating based on

Dateringen fremgår af dagbogen.

H.C. Andersen [+]

Recipient’s Location

Pisa

Abstract

Andersen visits the cemetery Campo Santo in Pisa, where he sees Thorvaldsen’s relief Monument to Vaccà Berlinghieri, A613. Andersen thinks that Thorvaldsen has given the healing Tobias in the monument his own features.

[…] – Tæt ved laae Campo Sancto, Kirkegaarden i Midten er med indviet Jord fra Jerusalem, der før havde den Kraft at Liget i 24 Timer blev til et Cadaver, det var en stor Græsplet, med en Cypres i hver Hjørne, inde i Bygningen selv der var med aabne Colonner stode Monumenterne over de Døde; et Basrelief af Thorvaldsen (Tobiæ Helbredelse) (han havde afbildet sig selv som den unge Tobias), det var over Andreæ Vacca. […]

[…] – Nearby was Campo Sancto, the cemetery in the middle has consecrated ground from Jerusalem, which earlier had power so that the dead body during 24 hours became a corpse, It was a large patch of grass with a cypress in each corner, inside the building itself, which had open columns, were the monuments to the dead; a bas-relief by Thorvaldsen (Tobiæ restoration) (he had reproduced himself as the young Tobias), it was to Andreæ Vacca. […]

[Translated by Karen Husum]

General Comment
Uddraget er afskrevet efter H.C. Andersens Dagbøger, op. cit. Kun de dele, der vedrører Thorvaldsen, er medtaget. Andersen ankom til Pisa 4.10.1833.
Thiele
Ikke omtalt hos Thiele.
Other references
H.C. Andersen (H. Topsøe-Jensen, red.): Mit Livs Eventyr, København 1951. H.C. Andersen (Kåre Olsen, H. Topsøe-Jensen og Helga Vagn Lauridsen, red.): H.C. Andersens Dagbøger. 1822-1834, bd. I, København 1971, p. 201, ll. 18-25.
Subjects
Funerary Monuments, Reliefs · Funerary Monument to Vaccà Berlinghieri · Accounts of Journeys · Reliefs, Christian Mythology · Self-Portraits by Thorvaldsen · Thorvaldsen's Works, not at Thorvaldsens Museum
Persons
Bertel Thorvaldsen · Andrea Vaccà Berlinghieri
Works

General Comment

Uddraget er afskrevet efter H.C. Andersens Dagbøger, op. cit. Kun de dele, der vedrører Thorvaldsen, er medtaget. Andersen ankom til Pisa 4.10.1833.

Thiele

Ikke omtalt hos Thiele.

Other references

H.C. Andersen (H. Topsøe-Jensen, red.): Mit Livs Eventyr, København 1951.

H.C. Andersen (Kåre Olsen, H. Topsøe-Jensen og Helga Vagn Lauridsen, red.): H.C. Andersens Dagbøger. 1822-1834, bd. I, København 1971, p. 201, ll. 18-25.

Subjects

Funerary Monuments, Reliefs · Funerary Monument to Vaccà Berlinghieri · Accounts of Journeys · Reliefs, Christian Mythology · Self-Portraits by Thorvaldsen · Thorvaldsen's Works, not at Thorvaldsens Museum

Persons

Bertel Thorvaldsen · Andrea Vaccà Berlinghieri

Works