Artistic Environment in Rome
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Georg Zoëga
Arveprins Frederik
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicolai Abildgaard
Thorvaldsen’s draft of his first report to Abildgaard on his activities in Rome. He has visited t...
Heinrich Keller
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Eulogy for the Swiss sculptor Johann Jakob Schmid.
Johan David Åkerblad
Johan David Åkerblad
Åkerblad’s list of artists in Rome 1798-99.
Johan Jacob Ekman
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ekman asks Thorvaldsen to come and visit him in order to help another artist improve his work.
Johan Jacob Ekman
Bertel Thorvaldsen
After a difficult journey, Ekman has arrived in Vienna, where he has received a letter from Thorv...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley is sorry that Thorvaldsen has been ill, but he is happy that the sculptor has found lodgi...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley thanks Thorvaldsen for his letter. He very much wants to be in Rome, especially before t...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley has received incorrect treatment by his Italian doctor, but his new German doctor is bett...
J.L. Lund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Lund thanks Thorvaldsen for his letter and looks forward to their reunion in Rome. He informs Tho...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart reports that Thorvaldsen’s portrait busts of himself and Jacqueline Schubart, A718...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen apologizes for his late reply and informs Schubart that he is finishing Bacchus, A2. ...
August Wilhelm Schlegel
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Omnes
Schlegel reports to Goethe on the art scene in Rome, summer 1805.The commentary to this document ...
Arnold Wallick
Christian 8.
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C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley ironically describes his amazement at having received two letters from Thorvaldsen. He al...
J.L. Lund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Lund has heard that Thorvaldsen is working on the relief The Baptism of Christ, possibly A736, du...
C.F. Høyer
Nicolai Abildgaard
C.F. Høyer has just arrived in Rome. He reports to Nicolai Abildgaard that Thorvaldsen has invite...
Herman Schubart
Nicolai Abildgaard
Schubart tells Abildgaard about C.F.F. Stanley’s death. He encloses Henrik Vilhelm Lundbye&...
C.F. Høyer
Nicolai Abildgaard
Høyer suggests that commissions for Christiansborg Palace should soon be given to Thorvaldsen bef...
C.F. Høyer
Nicolai Abildgaard
Høyer writes that Thorvaldsen has received an instalment of 100 rix-dollars for the portrait bust...
Accademia Italiana, Johann Paul Schulthesius
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen is nominated honorary member of the Accademia Italiana. He is asked to forward his bi...
Adam Gottlob Detlef Moltke
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A.G.D. Moltke transfers 200 piastres for his bust, cf. A212, regretting the delay. He would like ...
Carl Gotthard Grass
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Grass describes his arrival at the town of Treia and his negative impression of the local inhabit...
C.F. Høyer
Nicolai Abildgaard
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J.L. Lund
Carl Anton Graff
Greetings and reports from mainly the Danish-German art society in Rome.
Christian 8.
Hans West
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Friederike Brun
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A list of the objects that Friederike Brun leaves in storage with Thorvaldsen.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Caroline von Humboldt
Humboldt has just opened a letter from Friedrich Wilhelm 3., who asks him to obtain sketches (dra...
Christian 8.
Hans West
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Caroline von Humboldt
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Humboldt is sending the letter with the Prince of Weimar, Count von Ettling, and Baron von Gersdo...
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Thorvaldsen looks well in spite of his severe pains. He is working on the frieze Alexander the Gr...
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Rauch sends the promised engravings of Thorvaldsen’s reliefs through Count von Schulenburg-Witzen...
Filippo Giuntotardi, Bertel Thorvaldsen
Omnes, Bertel Thorvaldsen
List of artists and others, written on the back of a printed text by the etcher Filippo Giuntotar...
Peder Malling
Christian 8.
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NN
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen is asked to attend the funeral ceremony of Virginio Bracci.Household accounts on the ...
Redaktørerne ved Athene, Rasmus Emil Bruun
Christian Molbech, NN
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Presumably between October 1817 and September 1819
John Gibson
Omnes
Gibson retells an anecdote about Thorvaldsen, the painter Peter von Cornelius, and a number of sc...
Caroline von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Humboldt has just celebrated her son-in-law August von Hedemann’s birthday with about twenty gues...
Caroline von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt
On the top of the sacred Monte Cavo in the Alban Hills, Humboldt, Thorvaldsen, and others have en...
Lauritz Kruse
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Kruse encloses the prospectus in which the Danish population is invited to contribute to the acqu...
Caroline von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt
The artists from Casa Buti have invited Caroline von Humboldt to dinner on her birthday, and she ...
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Caroline von Humboldt
Humbolt thinks that Thorvaldsen’s workshop forms a whole of rich and great figures. He thinks tha...
Caroline von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Caroline von Humboldt has been pleased to read a beautiful and personal letter to her husband fro...
Jørgen Koch
C.F. Hansen
Koch has not yet had time to talk to Thorvaldsen about The Alexander Frieze for Christiansborg Pa...
Hermann Ernst Freund, Jørgen Koch
Kunstakademiet, København
Koch and Freund report that they have arrived safely in Rome, where they have been well received ...
Jørgen Koch
Maria Koch
Koch informs his sister of his future address at Thorvaldsen’s place in Rome.
Caroline von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt
It is the Humboldts’ eldest daughter Caroline’s birthday, and the residents of Palazzo Tomati, am...
Jørgen Koch
G.F. Hetsch
Koch will soon move into Casa Buti. Thorvaldsen is modelling Mercury about to Kill Argus, cf. A5....
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen
Thorvaldsen looks forward to embracing C.F. Hansen in Copenhagen soon. He characterizes the sculp...
Jørgen Koch
C.F. Hansen
Thorvaldsen is pleased that his native country now acknowledges his achievements with a large com...
Caroline von Humboldt
Christian Daniel Rauch
Wilhelm Schadow is working on several paintings, among them The Road to Calvary, B156. Thorvaldse...
Franziska Caspers
Charlotte Thierry
Thorvaldsen has guided Caspers through the Vatican museum by torchlight. She admires his inspirin...
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Scavenius saw an exhibition of works by Scandinavian artists in the Palazzo Caffarelli in Rome, w...
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Scavenius’ diary describing a four-day hiking and horse riding trip to the Alban Hills with...
Redaktørerne ved Leipziger Zeitung
Omnes
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Redaktørerne ved Allgemeine Zeitung
Omnes
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Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller reports that the small model for the monument to the Swiss guards in Lucerne, cf. Dying Li...
Christian 8.
C.F. Hansen
Christian Frederik has considered to interrupt his grand tour of Europe temporarily in order to g...
John Gibson
John Crouchley
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Christian 8.
Christian 8.
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Christian 8.
Christian 8.
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Jørgen Koch
Christian Frijs
Hermann Ernst Freund is modelling the apostle Thaddaeus in full size for the Church of Our Lady i...
Jørgen Koch
Christian 8.
Hermann Ernst Freund and Pietro Tenerani will soon begin modelling two small figures probably for...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
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Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Johann Gottlob von Quandt
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Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Visits Canova’s workshop and comments on the sculptor’s works. Then he visits Thorvaldsen’s works...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Celebrates Christmas Eve in the company of Thorvaldsen and other Danes in Rome. They have rice pu...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Visits Thorvaldsen, who gets the idea of enlarging his professorial residence at the Academy of F...
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Veit Hanns Schnorr von Carolsfeld
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Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Visits Thorvaldsen in his workshop, where he meets the Russian general Alexander Ivanovich Osterm...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Visits Thorvaldsen, who has modelled a bust of the Austrian Prince Karl Philipp von Schwarzenberg...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Plays host to a large company of noblemen and artists on the occasion of the Danish King Frederik...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
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Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Visits the German painter Adolf Senff and then Thorvaldsen, who is working on a marble version of...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen and Rudolf Schadow model and others draw the beautiful Vittoria Caldoni, whom August ...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Christian (8.) Frederik visits Thorvaldsen with an offer of a commission for Hermann Ernst Freund...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
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Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen has modelled Christ, cf. A82 and the apostles Peter, cf. A86 and Paul, cf. A103 in clay.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Has visited Thorvaldsen and is pleased with the sketch, Nysø34, for the statue of Caroline Amalie...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Leaves Rome after a long visit. Thorvaldsen and other artists take leave of the royal couple at L...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted invites Thorvaldsen to accompany him on visits to collections of antiques.
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Johann Gottlob von Quandt
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Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Johann Gottlob von Quandt
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Johan Gunder Adler
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Payment of the biannual interest of 225 scudi on the loan of 9000 scudi, which Christian (8.) Fre...
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Veit Hanns Schnorr von Carolsfeld
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Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Johann Gottlob von Quandt
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Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Johann Gottlob von Quandt
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Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Johann Gottlob von Quandt
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Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Johann Gottlob von Quandt
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Christian Horneman
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recommendation of the Danish architect Ole Jørgen Schmidt, who is going to Italy. Horneman’...
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Johann Gottlob von Quandt
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Redaktørerne ved Nyt Aftenblad
Omnes
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1.2.1825 and mid-February 1825
Redaktørerne ved Hesperus, NN
Omnes
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Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Johann Gottlob von Quandt
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NN, Redaktørerne ved Nyt Aftenblad
Omnes
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Carsten Hauch
Omnes
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Franz Ludwig Catel, Joseph Anton Koch, Johann Christian Reinhart, Franz Riepenhausen, Johannes Riepenhausen, Johann Martin von Rohden, Bertel Thorvaldsen, Philipp Veit
Omnes
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Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Johann Gottlob von Quandt
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Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen is invited to Sigismund von Neukomm’s birthday party.
Melchiorre Missirini
Omnes
Notice on the celebration of Thorvaldsen’s Roman birthday 8.3.1827.
Jacques-Ignace Hittorff
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hittorff recommends the architect Felix Wilhelm Kubli, who brings Thorvaldsen a leaflet on his pu...
Jacques-Ignace Hittorff
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hittorff recommends the architect Felix Wilhelm Kubli, who brings Thorvaldsen a leaflet on his pu...
Redaktørerne ved Allgemeine Zeitung
Omnes
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N.C.L. Abrahams
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Abrahams sends a report from Paris. He has met the bronze caster Louis-Claude-Ferdinand Soyer, wh...
Redaktørerne ved Archiv for Psychologie, Historie, Literatur og Kunst
Omnes
The King of Bavaria, Ludwig I, visits Thorvaldsen’s, Pietro Tenerani’s, and Johann Martin von Wa...
Friedrich Thøming
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thøming asks permission to borrow the paintings that Thorvaldsen has bought from him so that he m...
Instituto di corrispondenza archeologica
Omnes
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Conrad Rantzau
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Rantzau thanks Thorvaldsen for his help during his and Prince Frederik’s (7.) visit to Rome in 18...
Redaktørerne ved Allgemeine Zeitung
Omnes
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F.C. Hillerup
Omnes
A drinking song in six stanzas in the form of an imaginary journey to Rome, written on the occasi...
Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
Omnes
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Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
Omnes
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Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
Omnes
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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Mendelsohn writes about the enjoyable aspects of his life in Rome. These days, he does nothing af...
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Mendelsohn has learnt something from Horace Vernet, which he thinks everyone could learn from him...
Jacques-Ignace Hittorff
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hittorff recommends the French architect Jean Pollet. He hopes to see Thorvaldsen and Rome again ...
Redaktørerne ved Dansk Litteratur-Tidende
Omnes
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H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
Andersen attends the reburial of Raphael in the Pantheon, where he sees Thorvaldsen for the first...
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
Andersen has visited Christen Christensen, who is working on a portrait of Thorvaldsen, and in Al...
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
Andersen has visited Princess Charlotte Frederikke in order to read aloud from his dramatic poem ...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen has been awarded the Silver Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog, and Christian Freder...
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
Andersen describes a Ponte Molle party that he attended with Thorvaldsen and other German and Sca...
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
Andersen has been in a tavern in order to take leave of First Lieutenant A.W. Dinesen, who is lea...
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
In the evening, Andersen went to a tavern where Thorvaldsen, Johann Christian Reinhart, and Peter...
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
Andersen reads aloud from Agnete and the Merman to Thorvaldsen and other artists. Thorvaldsen, wh...
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
Andersen has attended an evening of poetry reading at the Accademia Tiberina together with Henrik...
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
Andersen describes the Christmas celebration of Scandinavian artists and others in Rome 1833.
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
Andersen describes the contrast between Schlick’s and Thorvaldsen’s appearance and habits.
H.C. Andersen
Omnes
A song composed for the celebration of Thorvaldsen’s Roman birthday in Copenhagen.
Christian Dalgas
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Dalgas writes that a crate with books and works of art from Edward Collin has been sent on to Tho...
Marie Lehmann
Marie Lehmann
Marie Puggaard describes her and her parents’ first visit to Thorvaldsen. He surpasses all their ...
Marie Lehmann
Marie Lehmann
Marie Puggaard writes about an excursion in the company of Danish artists to Tivoli east of Rome....
Marie Lehmann
Marie Lehmann
With her parents and Petzholdt, Marie Puggaard has visited the painter Franz Ludwig Catel’s studio.
Marie Lehmann
Marie Lehmann
Marie Puggaard describes a merry pre-Christmas party for artists in Rome, where she tries to make...
Marie Lehmann
Marie Lehmann
Marie Puggaard describes a merry Christmas party in the company of Thorvaldsen and other Danes in...
John Gibson
Edward Bulwer Lytton
Gibson wonders that John Lough neither visits other sculptors’ workshops nor receives visits in h...
Marie Lehmann
Marie Lehmann
Marie Puggaard writes about an excursion to Vigne Barberini in the company of the painters Friedr...
Marie Lehmann
Marie Lehmann
Marie Puggaard describes how Thorvaldsen and other artists often eat in a truly Roman manner in t...
Franz Woltreck
Peter von Cornelius
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Marie Lehmann
Marie Lehmann
Marie Puggaard writes about an excursion to the country near Rome. She gives a detailed descripti...
Marie Lehmann
Marie Lehmann
Marie Puggaard writes about an excursion to the country near Rome, about Thorvaldsen’s unexpected...
Marie Lehmann
Marie Lehmann
At an artists’ gathering in the evening, there was not room for Marie at the table, so she sat al...
Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
Omnes
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Benjamin Gibson
John Crouchley
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Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
Omnes
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Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt
Omnes
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Wilhelm Fredric A. Dalman
Omnes
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Horace Vernet
Thorvaldsen regrets that he has not been able to pass through Paris and see the works that Vernet...
John Gibson
Margaret Sandbach
Fragments of a letter which must have been written over several days because it first says that F...
H.P. Holst
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A humorous poem probably presented to Thorvaldsen together with a candle and a coffee grinder.
John Gibson
Margaret Sandbach
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H.P. Holst
Christine Stampe, Elise Stampe, Bertel Thorvaldsen
A birthday song, in which the first toast is addressed to Thorvaldsen and the following two to Ch...
H.P. Holst
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Poster with a humorous advertisement for a humorous play at the ”unroyal theatre” with the full c...
Accademia di San Luca
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Accademia di S. Luca invites Thorvaldsen to a meeting.
Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt
Omnes
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John Gibson
Margaret Sandbach
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Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Information about the expected arrival at Leghorn of the frigate Thetis and about the sepulchral ...
Giacomo Giustiniani
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Giustiniani asks Thorvaldsen to resume his teaching as a professor at the Accademia di S. Luca.
Accademia di San Luca
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Accademia di S. Luca invites Thorvaldsen to a council meeting.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Giacomo Giustiniani
Thorvaldsen diplomatically declines the invitation to resume his teaching at the Accademia di S. ...
John Gibson
Margaret Sandbach
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Ludvig Müller
Christian 8.
Müller sends a report to Christian 8. on Danish artists in Rome. He gives a detailed description ...
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 42th part of 60 in all.
Ferdinand Flor
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen is awarded the order of merit by the Ponte Molle Society, N92.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Horace Vernet
Thorvaldsen was to have accompanied Christine Stampe back to Copenhagen via Paris, but he has not...
C.F. Holbech
Christine Stampe
Holbech’s report on Thorvaldsen’s life at the end of June 1842.
C.F. Holbech
Christine Stampe
Holbech’s report on Thorvaldsen’s life July and August 1842.
Redaktørerne ved Ny Portefeuille
Omnes
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H.P. Holst, Redaktørerne ved Ny Portefeuille
Omnes
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H.P. Holst
Frederik Barfod
Holst writes about the party celebrating Thorvaldsen’s return to Rome, given on 19.9.1841, and he...
Wilhelm August Rudolf Lehmann
Omnes
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