1.4.1819
Sender Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva writes that unfortunately he has had to give up his plans to go to Rome. He is proud of...
Sender Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Recipient Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Scavenius visited Thorvaldsen’s workshop together with Hermann Ernst Freund and admired some of T...
3.4.1819
Sender Christian Daniel Rauch
Recipient Caroline von Humboldt
Rauch has received requests from Poland to supervise the bronze casting and the shipment of Thorv...
Sender NN
Workshop accounts for the week 29.3.-3.4.1819.
Scavenius celebrated his father’s birthday at the trattoria The Ermine, where Thorvaldsen was als...
Sender Clemens Metternich
Recipient Eleonore von Kaunitz
Metternich is sightseeing in Rome and visits Thorvaldsen’s and Canova’s workshops. Canova reminds...
4.4.1819
Sender Margherita Vergé
Request for financial support.
Workshop accounts for the week 29.3.-4.4.1819.
6.4.1819
Sender Thomas Hope
Thomas Hope urges Thorvaldsen to finish and deliver Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822, commissio...
7.4.1819
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient Ludwig 1.
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Sender Benedetto Tordoro
Sender Sebastiano Nalli
8.4.1819
Sender Narcyz Makowiecki
Recipient Pierre Jullien
Makowiecki asks the banker Jullien to pay Thorvaldsen 50 ecus after the bust of Józef Poniatowski...
9.4.1819
A few days after his previous letter, Sommariva writes to Thorvaldsen again on behalf of the Appi...
10.4.1819
Sender Rud Bay
Recipient Gottlieb Schønheyder
Sender Appiani-kommissionen
11.4.1819
Workshop accounts for the second week of April 1819.
12.4.1819
Sender Frans 1.
13.4.1819
Scavenius visited the Galleria Borghese and Thorvaldsen’s workshop, which is overrun by with visi...
14.4.1819
Sender Franz Grillparzer
Recipient Omnes
The commentary for this diary entry is not available at the moment.
15.4.1819
Sender Stanisław Mokronowski
In this accompanying letter, Mokronowski writes that Count Kossakowski’s journey to Rome h...
16.4.1819
Scavenius saw an exhibition of works by Scandinavian artists in the Palazzo Caffarelli in Rome, w...
18.4.1819
Sender Leo von Klenze
Workshop accounts for the third week of April 1819.
19.4.1819
Sender Jørgen Koch
Recipient Peder Malling
Information that Thorvaldsen is preparing his journey to Denmark.
20.4.1819
Sender Giuseppe Capecelatro
Sandsynligvis april eller maj 1819
Sender Franziska Caspers
Caspers asks Thorvaldsen to come and see her for a moment just after 12 o’clock.
Antagelig 21.4.1819
Caspers asks Thorvaldsen indignantly if he does not want to say goodbye to her. She sympathizes w...
23.4.1819
Sender Friedrich Schlegel
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
24.4.1819
Workshop accounts for the fourth week of April 1819.
Sender Heinrich Keller
Recipient Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller reports that Thorvaldsen is very busy and is about to leave for Denmark.
25.4.1819
27.4.1819
Sender C.A. Jensen
A greeting in Thorvaldsen’s album.
Sender Gustav Blücher-Altona
Sender Louis le Normand de Bretteville
Sender NN, Frederik Carl Emil von Scholten
Two greetings in Thorvaldsen’s album.
Sender Peder Hjort, Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Sender Friedrich August Emil
Sender Daniel Nicolas Bahrt
Sender J.L. Lund
Scavenius visited Thorvaldsen’s workshop and in the afternoon went to La Storta for a big party o...
Sender N.C. Lunzi
Sender Andreas Christian Gierlew
Sender Hermann Ernst Freund
Sender B.S. Ingemann
Sender Herman Schubart
28.4.1819
Scavenius visited Canova’s workshop. He criticises a number of his works and compares him unfavou...
29.4.1819
Sender G. Monti
Sender Redaktørerne ved Leipziger Zeitung
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
1.5.1819
Rud Bay describes his first encounter with Thorvaldsen. He mentions a wild and drunken party on t...
Workshop accounts for the last week of April until May 1st 1819.
3.5.1819
Sender István Ferenczy
Bill for work on a bas-relief and two busts.
5.5.1819
Sender Fortunato Magnani
Sender P.O. Brøndsted
Recipient P.O. Brøndsted
6.5.1819
Sender Caroline von Humboldt
Recipient Wilhelm von Humboldt
It was a sad, rainy morning when Caroline von Humboldt left Rome on May 2, 1819. The Buti family ...
7.5.1819
Keller writes that the model for Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, is much admired. He is ...
7.-10.5.1819
Scavenius’ diary describing a four-day hiking and horse riding trip to the Alban Hills with...
8.5.1819
Workshop accounts for the first week of May 1819.
Recipient Jens Møller
12.5.1819
Scavenius studied Barthold Georg Niebuhr’s Römische Geschichte and visited Thorvaldsen’s workshop.
15.5.1819
Recipient Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt has not demanded an answer from Thorvaldsen concerning Rauch’s possible rol...
19.5.1819
Sender Frances Mackenzie
Recipient William Cavendish
The commentary for this contract is not available at the moment.
Scavenius comments on Thorvaldsen’s restoration of the Aegenetes, which have inspired Goddess of ...
20.5.1819
Sender Camillo Focardi
Caspers is very sorry that she failed to keep her appointment with Thorvaldsen the day before. Sh...
21.5.1819
A note of remembrance with a short text and three different dried flowers.
22.5.1819
Workshop accounts for the third week of May 1819.
Keller reports that the model for Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion) , cf. cast A119, is nearly finish...
23.5.1819
Caspers is leaving Rome and Thorvaldsen, but she feels that her soul will stay with him. She will...
Keller reports that Thorvaldsen wants to visit Lucerne in order to see the execution of the monum...
25.5.1819
Sender Spiridion Naranzi
Naranzi presses Thorvaldsen for an answer concerning the monument to Thomas Maitland, cf. A258 an...
Dinner at Scavenius’ house, where Thorvaldsen talked about Canova’s equestrian statue of Charles ...
27.5.1819
Rud Bay describes his frequent visits to Thorvaldsen’s studio and his fascination when watching h...
28.5.1819
Scavenius bought cameos after Night, cf. A369, and Day, cf. A370, finished his diary, and went fo...
Recipient Andreas Christian Gierlew
Brøndsted thanks Gierlew for his letter. He is currently editing his investigations from his expe...
6.6.1819
Workshop accounts for the first week of June 1819.
8.6.1819
Recipient Principessa di Teano
9.6.1819
12.6.1819
Sender Giovanni Dall’ Armi
Recipient Giuseppe Dall’ Armi
Recipient Niels Rosenkrantz
Clemens Metternich is leaving Rome in two days and is posing for Thorvaldsen, who is modelling hi...
Sender Elisabeth Chitrowo
Elizabeth Chitrowo writes to Thorvaldsen in order to persuade him to execute a bas-relief for a f...
Keller expresses a hope that, in spite of the price, an accomplished Italian sculptor will be cho...
13.6.1819
Sender Jacopo Ferretti
Recipient Conrad Rantzau
16.6.1819
Recipient Peder Hjort
Receipt for the payment of repairs to a carriage in connection with a trip to Leghorn.
Sender Redaktørerne ved Wiener Zeitung
17.6.1819
Keller presses Thorvaldsen for the completion of the model for Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf....
Thorvaldsen has modelled Metternich’s bust, cf. A234. The artist will pass through Vienna before ...
19.6.1819
Sender Luigi Chiaveri
Chiaveri reminds Thorvaldsen that Nicolaus Esterházy’s commission has to be sent off. Esterházy’s...
Recipient Holger Halling Aagaard
Brøndsted writes about his Roman friends and about Thorvaldsen in particular. He is happy that Th...
Keller complains that it is difficult to get Thorvaldsen to complete his work on the model for Dy...
Rauch thanks Caroline von Humboldt for having acted wisely in connection with Rauch’s possible in...
23.6.1819
Sender Giuseppe Gaggini
25.6.1819
Sender Giuseppe Bonvinci
Juli-august 1819
The commentary for this accounting is not available at the moment.
Juli 1819 - juli 1821
The commentary for this account is not available at the moment.