Reliefs, Christian Mythology
See also: Thorvaldsen and Christianity
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 answer to Schubart’s letter. He thanks him for the comm...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart writes that Charlotte Schimmelmann is satisfied with Thorvaldsen’s sketch of Bapti...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart writes that The Dance of the Muses on Helicon, cf. A705, and the portrait busts of himse...
Herman Schubart
C.F.F. Stanley
Schubart thanks Stanley for his letter and asks him to tell Thorvaldsen that he will soon receive...
J.L. Lund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Lund has heard that Thorvaldsen is working on the relief The Baptism of Christ, possibly A736, du...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart hopes that Thorvaldsen has arrived safely in Rome. He mentions the mortally ill Caspar B...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen apologizes for not having been in contact with regard to the commission for a monumen...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen is unable to come to Montenero because of too much work. He has put off sending casts...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Draft: Thorvaldsen is unable to come to Montenero because of too much work. The Dance of the Muse...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Charlotte Schimmelmann
Thorvaldsen informs Schimmelmann that the baptismal font, cf. A555,1, A555,2, A555,3, A555,4, whi...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted advises Thorvaldsen to return to Denmark, at least for a year. He encloses letters for ...
Stanislaus de Chaudoir
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Chaudoir commissions the monument to his first wife Aloisia, cf. Monument to Stanislaus Chaudoir...
Jørgen Koch
Jonas Collin
Koch writes about Thorvaldsen’s works and commissions. The sculptor has completed Mercury a...
B.S. Ingemann
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Excerpt of Ingemann’s Reiselyren, which describes some of Thorvaldsen’s works.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Det toscanske Hof
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Scavenius bought cameos after Night, cf. A369, and Day, cf. A370, finished his diary, and went fo...
P.O. Brøndsted
Holger Halling Aagaard
Brøndsted writes about his Roman friends and about Thorvaldsen in particular. He is happy that Th...
Christian Ditlev Reventlow
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Friederike Brun, Redaktørerne ved Tilskueren
Omnes
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
Nicolai Holten, Adam Wilhelm Moltke
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Moltke writes that 4000 species have been collected for carving marble versions of the two bas-re...
Redaktørerne ved Allgemeine Zeitung
Omnes
Allgemeine Zeitung reports on Thorvaldsen’s visit to Berlin and Dresden, on his coming visi...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hans Henrik Gunnerus
Thorvaldsen responds to Gunnerus’ letter of 16.3.1822. He feels sympathy for Gunnerus and his unh...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hans Henrik Gunnerus
Thorvaldsen responds to Gunnerus’ letter of 16.3.1822. He feels sympathy for Gunnerus and his unh...
Hans Henrik Gunnerus
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gunnerus informs Thorvaldsen that he has handed over his deed of gift of 24.5.1822 and the owners...
Commissione per il Monumento Vaccà
Commissione per il Monumento Vaccà
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Hans Henrik Gunnerus
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gunnerus has heard that the relief Caritas, cf. A598, will arrive in Copenhagen from Leghorn the ...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
An inquiry about Thorvaldsen’s sculptural decorations for the Church of Our Lady and Christ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen sends a list of the works that can be ready for transportation to Denmark in the spri...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen writes which works will be ready to be sent to Denmark in the spring of 1827.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen
One of three draft letters, in Thorvaldsen’s own hand, of a fourth draft letter dated 7.2.1...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Kirkebygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen lists the works which will be ready to be sent to Denmark in the spring of 1827 and c...
Kirkebygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
In consequence of a royal ordinance, Thorvaldsen is asked by the Building Commission for the Chur...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen is very disappointed about the postponement of the shipment to Denmark of Thorvaldsen...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Francesco Mastiani-Brunacci
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Antonio Piccolomini Bellanti
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The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
G. Conti
Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen has read a letter from Hermann Ernst Freund concerning the forthcoming transportation...
Antonio Piccolomini Bellanti
Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Francesco Mastiani-Brunacci
Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
C. Giuseppe Caproni Camerino
Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
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Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Luigi Bienaimé
Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Luigi Bienaimé
Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
G. Cantini
Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Luigi Bienaimé
Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Magistrato della Communità di Pisa
Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen expresses his gratitude for two letters from the Building Commission for Christiansbo...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hansen hopes to see Thorvaldsen and his works for Christiansborg Palace and the Church of Our Lad...
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
Andersen visits the cemetery Campo Santo in Pisa, where he sees Thorvaldsen’s relief Monument to ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen
Thorvaldsen is in bed with a severe cold. The last five pieces of the Alexander Frieze are now re...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
At Thorvaldsen’s request, the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace and the Univers...
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 7th part of 60 in all.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Johan Christian Fick
Thorvaldsen declines a dinner invitation in Copenhagen on 19.11.1839 because he is busy working o...
Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt
Omnes
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
Mathilde von Waldenburg
Bertel Thorvaldsen
von Waldenburg asks for a cast of The Adoration of the Shepherds, A570, and Thorvaldsen’s s...
Ludvig Müller
Christian 8.
Müller sends a report to Christian 8. on Danish artists in Rome. He gives a detailed description ...
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.
Gustav Edvard Brock
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
Brock sends the list of the objects in Thorvaldsen’s estate that Christine Stampe lays clai...