Marble Carving
See also: Purchase of Marble · Spotless Marble · Thorvaldsen as a Marble Carver · Thorvalden's Assistants · Thorvaldsen's Workshop Practice
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicolai Abildgaard
Thorvaldsen’s draft of his first report to Abildgaard on his activities in Rome. He has visited t...
After 23.3.1803, before summer 1803
Finelli & Keller
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen’s contract with the sculptors Pietro Finelli and Heinrich Keller concerning the deliv...
Nicolai Abildgaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Abildgaard is happy about Thorvaldsen’s success in Rome. He has received the busts Thorvaldsen se...
Camillo Landini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley has given Landini a letter from Thorvaldsen, who is at Montenero, and asks for news about...
Camillo Landini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Landini signs for the payment received from Thorvaldsen for the carving of Bacchus.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen cannot come to Montenero because he is waiting for a final answer regarding a commiss...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Charlotte Schimmelmann
Thorvaldsen informs Schimmelmann that the baptismal font, cf. A555,1, A555,2, A555,3, A555,4, whi...
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Rauch regrets that Thorvaldsen has not yet finished the statues of Cupid Holding a Butterfly to H...
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Rauch writes that Thorvaldsen has finished Cupid Holding a Butterfly to Hurt it with an Arrow and...
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Rauch writes about the choice of marble. He finds it offensive that Thorvaldsen publishes his wor...
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Christian 8.
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
Christian 8.
Peder Malling
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller expresses a hope that, in spite of the price, an accomplished Italian sculptor will be cho...
Jørgen Koch
Kunstakademiet, København
Koch is pleased to have met P.O. Brøndsted in Rome. Thorvaldsen will soon start his journey to De...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller reports that the small model for the monument to the Swiss guards in Lucerne, cf. Dying Li...
Redaktørerne ved Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn
Omnes
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John Gibson
William Cavendish
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Christian Molbech
Omnes
Molbech’s account of his visit to Rome, in which he compares Thorvaldsen and Canova and describes...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen and Rudolf Schadow model and others draw the beautiful Vittoria Caldoni, whom August ...
John Gibson
William Cavendish
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Jacob Ludwig Salomo Bartholdy
Johann Martin von Wagner
Bartholdy writes about Franz Erwein von Schönborn’s commission of a statue of Bacchus from the la...
Johann Martin von Wagner
Leo von Klenze
Wagner sums up Schönborn’s possibilities regarding his commission of a Bacchus statue from the la...
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Johann Martin von Wagner
Schönborn thanks Wagner for his help and advice in connection with the completion of an unfinishe...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Alexander 1.
A note that two busts of the Tsar have been shipped from Rome. Thorvaldsen swears that each strok...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Alexander 1.
A note that two busts of the Tsar have been shipped from Rome. Thorvaldsen swears that each strok...
Johann Martin von Wagner
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Wagner regrets his late answer regarding the completion of the Bacchus statue left by the late Ru...
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Accounts for the roughhewing of the relief Cupid Received by Anacreon, Winter, A827,
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Luigi Sommariva
Thorvaldsen responds to Sommariva’s letter of complaint regarding his father Giovanni Battista So...
Johan Gunder Adler
Hermann Ernst Freund
Freund is informed that the frigate which was to transport several of Thorvaldsen’s works t...
G. Petrozzani
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Johan Gunder Adler, Hermann Ernst Freund
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Adler writes to the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace, quoting a letter dated 30.6.18...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hermann Ernst Freund
Thorvaldsen requests information about the execution of the figure of Christ in Carrara. Freund i...
Hermann Ernst Freund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
H.W. Bissen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bissen recounts his journey on foot to Florence and mentions that he has seen Thorvaldsen’s Chris...
Pietro Antonio Bienaimé
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Pietro Antonio Bienaimé
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bienaimé states that the sculptor Andrea Bardi has worked for 47 days on the marble version of Th...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Johan Gunder Adler
Thorvaldsen announces that he now needs some of the 9000 Roman scudi which Christian (8.) Frederi...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Johan Gunder Adler
First and second draft of the letter dated 9.5.1829.
Rembrandt Peale
Omnes
Peale describes his impression of Thorvaldsen, his works, and his studio practice. He is critical...
Redaktørerne ved Dansk Litteratur-Tidende
Omnes
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Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian (8.) Frederik is looking forward to seeing Thorvaldsen again in Copenhagen in the autum...
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen describes his visit to the marble quarries at Carrara.
Redaktørerne ved Allgemeine Zeitung
Omnes
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Wilhelm Fredric A. Dalman
Omnes
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After 1.2.1842, before 15.2.1842
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
Sixth draft of the letter dated 15.2.1842. The draft is considerably longer than the final letter.
John Gibson
Henry Sandbach
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Johann Scholl
Kultusministeriet
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.