5.5.1796
Sender Peter Hanning Hammer
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
Peter Hanning Hammer is grateful for his friendship with Thorvaldsen. He mentions that Bernhoft h...
23.8.1796
Sender Nicolai Abildgaard, Jens Juel, København Kunstakademiet, Peter Meyn
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts instructs Thorvaldsen on the terms of his travelling grant....
9.12.1797
Sender Karen Thorvaldsen
Karen Thorvaldsen misses her son greatly. She is unhappy with her life and her husband. He gives ...
Ultimo 1797
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient Nicolai Abildgaard
Thorvaldsen’s draft of his first report to Abildgaard on his activities in Rome. He has visited t...
23.3.1798
Sender Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen is happy to have received news from his son. He advises him to send a work o...
Sandsynligvis 1798-99
Sender Johan David Åkerblad
Recipient Johan David Åkerblad
Åkerblad’s list of artists in Rome 1798-99.
3.1.1799
Recipient København Kunstakademiet
Thorvaldsen reports to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts that he is still in Rome, and that h...
19.3.1799
Sender København Kunstakademiet
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts informs Thorvaldsen of a one-year prolongation of his trave...
Draft letter from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts informing Thorvaldsen of a one-year prolo...
20.5.1799
Thanking his son for his letter, Thorvaldsen’s father writes about the hard winter, his work, and...
12.10.1799
Both Thorvaldsen’s semi-annual report to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the works he w...
3.12.1799
Sender Cornelius Høyer, København Kunstakademiet
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts has evaluated Thorvaldsen’s Bacchus and Ariadne, A1, and is...
4.4.1800
Thorvaldsen’s parents are delighted with the latest letter from their son, especially because a f...
21.7.1800
Sender Nicolai Abildgaard
Abildgaard relates that some people in Copenhagen have accused Thorvaldsen of being lazy in Rome,...
27.9.1803
Sender C.F.F. Stanley
Stanley is sorry that Thorvaldsen has been ill, but he is happy that the sculptor has found lodgi...
1.11.1803
Stanley has received incorrect treatment by his Italian doctor, but his new German doctor is bett...
23.9.1804
Sender Accademia Fiorentina, Giovanni degli Alessandri
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
7.6.1805
Sender Christian 7.
Christian 7. appoints Thorvaldsen professor of sculpture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts...
15.6.1805
The Academy of Fine Arts announces that Thorvaldsen has been appointed professor of sculpture.
18.6.1805
Sender C.F. Stanley
Recipient C.F.F. Stanley
Stanley Senior writes that Thorvaldsen has been appointed professor at the Academy of Fine Arts i...
19.7.1805
Sender Herman Schubart
Schubart thanks Stanley for his letter and asks him to tell Thorvaldsen that he will soon receive...
21.9.1805
Stanley submits drawings for a church and a sepulchral chapel for evaluation by the Academy of Fi...
11.10.1805
Schubart has made some emendations in Stanley’s letter to the Academy of Fine Arts in Copen...
27.12.1805
Sender Antonio Canova
Canova has been elected member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. He lacks words to...
4.5.1807
Sender Accademia Italiana, Johann Paul Schulthesius
Thorvaldsen is nominated honorary member of the Accademia Italiana. He is asked to forward his bi...
Antagelig efter 6.3.1808
Sender NN
26.5.1809
17.12.1810
Sender Hans West
West writes about political and economic conditions in Denmark and the rest of Europe. He describ...
11.5.1812
Sender Christian Daniel Rauch
Recipient Caroline von Humboldt
Thorvaldsen has been appointed professor with a monthly pay of 25 Roman piastres.
Antagelig 1814
Sender Giovanni degli Alessandri
A dedication to Thorvaldsen in a booklet.
5.5.1814
11.2.1815
Sender C.W. Eckersberg
Recipient J.F. Clemens
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
3.8.1816
Sender H.F. Horneman
22.10.1816
3.12.1816
23.10.1817
1818
Sender Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt
Recipient Omnes
1.1.1818
Sender Lauritz Kruse
Kruse encloses the prospectus in which the Danish population is invited to contribute to the acqu...
13.6.1818
Sender Jørgen Koch
Recipient Jonas Collin
Koch writes about Thorvaldsen’s works and commissions. The sculptor has completed Mercury a...
2.3.1822
8.11.1822
Recipient Fonden ad usus publicos
Thorvaldsen recommends the history painter Andreas Ludvig Koop.
9.5.1823
Sender Giovanni Battista Sommariva
12.5.1823
Sender Accademia Tiberina
5.6.1823
19.11.1823
Antagelig omkring 19.11.1823
Recipient NN
15.12.1823
Giovanni degli Alessandri recommends a student, Tommaso Gasperini, to Thorvaldsen. Gasperini is c...
22.1.1824
Sender Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, Quatremère de Quincy
Nomination of Thorvaldsen as a foreign member of the French Academy of Art. The result of a vote,...
21.2.1824
Thorvaldsen is informed that his nomination as a member of the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts has...
13.12.1824
Sender Accademia Labronica
21.1.1825
8.4.1825
Recipient Christian 8.
24.4.1825
Sender Accademia degli Arcadi
11.6.1825
Sommariva has received a letter from de Sanctis stating that a large part of the frieze Alexander...
26.11.1825
11.3.1826
Sender H.F.J. Estrup
Recipient København Ordenskapitlet
The historian Estrup’s biography of Thorvaldsen for the Chapter of the Royal Orders of Chiv...
Muligvis 20.10.1826
Sender Académie de France à Rome
Muligvis 28.10.1826
31.12.1826
24.6.1827
Sender Pierre Guérin
Recipient Sassen
Permission to draw after plaster sculptures in the French Academy in Rome.
26.7.1827
14.12.1827
31.12.1827
12.4.1828
Sender Carsten Hauch
Hauch is grateful to Thorvaldsen for his friendship in Rome. He has written a drama which he is g...
28.4.1828
Sender Accademia Tiberina, Melchiorre Missirini
Før 17.11.1828
8.12.1828
31.12.1828
1.4.1829
Sender Jakub Tatarkiewicz
Tatarkiewicz writes that there have been problems with the casting of Nicolaus Copernicus after t...
1.6.1829
Sender National Academy of Design
Thorvaldsen is notified, that he has been elected as a honorary member of the National Academy of...
22.12.1829
Sender Accademia dei Filergiti
1830
Kort før 26.4.1830
7.10.1830
Sender Accademia della Valle Tiberina Toscana
7.12.1830
8.12.1830
31.12.1830
15.3.1831
Sender Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Recipient Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Mendelsohn has learnt something from Horace Vernet, which he thinks everyone could learn from him...
27.6.1831
Sender H.W. Bissen
Recipient Just Mathias Thiele
24.10.1831
28.4.1832
1833
A dedication to Thorvaldsen.
4.4.1833
Thorvaldsen has unanimously been elected director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, and ...
7.12.1833
Sender H.C. Andersen
Recipient H.C. Andersen
Andersen has attended an evening of poetry reading at the Accademia Tiberina together with Henrik...
31.3.1834 - 1.4.1834
Sender Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
6.4.1834
Sender Ateneo di Brescia
27.4.1834
Sender Lucca Accademia dei Filomati
8.5.1834
30.6.1834
3.1.1835
Recipient Lucca Accademia dei Filomati
20.4.1835
Sender Lettere ed Belle Arti Accademia Aretina di Scienze, Antonio Fabroni
Thorvaldsen’s diploma as honorary member of the Accademia Aretina di Scienze, Lettere, e Belle-Ar...
2.7.1835
On behalf of Accademia Aretina di Scienze, Lettere, e Belle Arti, Fabroni informs Thorvaldsen tha...
30.11.1835
22.12.1835
Sender Amsterdam Koninklijk Instituut van Wetenschappen
1837
Sender Accademia Tiberina, NN
19.5.1837
24.5.1837
Sender Redaktørerne ved Aftonbladet