Social Life in Italy
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Georg Zoëga
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Zoëga sends Thorvaldsen a parcel with some of the clothes the sculptor left behind after his visi...
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Humboldt writes that Schubart and Moltke are coming to tea that evening and invites Thorvaldsen t...
Baron Brown
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brown asks Thorvaldsen to forgive him for not being able to meet him as planned, since he is not ...
Conrad Rantzau
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Rantzau tells Thorvaldsen that he has sent a bill of exchange for 300 piastres to Rome through Zo...
Accademia Italiana, Johann Paul Schulthesius
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen is nominated honorary member of the Accademia Italiana. He is asked to forward his bi...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted invites Thorvaldsen to come and hear news from Greece.
Christian 8.
Hans West
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Hans West
Bertel Thorvaldsen
West forwards an invitation to dinner with the Prince of Holstein Oldenborg.
Hans West
C.F. Høyer, Bertel Thorvaldsen
West tells Thorvaldsen and Høyer about his journey from Rome to Florence. The letter deals primar...
Caroline von Humboldt
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Humboldt recommends the Prince of Anhalt-Pleß. She misses Rome. She writes about the development ...
Antagelig tidligst december 1811, antagelig senest februar 1815
Conrad Rantzau
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Rantzau asks Thorvaldsen to assist him in listing the works which he commissioned from Thorvaldse...
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Thorvaldsen looks well in spite of his severe pains. He is working on the frieze Alexander the Gr...
Gabriel Cortois de Pressigny
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Pietro Tenerani
Bertel Thorvaldsen
While working on a model, Tenerani has caught a cold and is therefore unable to pick up Thorvalds...
Samuel Boddington
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Luigi Chiaveri
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Chiaveri invites Thorvaldsen to lunch with Nicolaus Esterházy, who wants to make arrangements for...
Caroline von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt
The artists from Casa Buti have invited Caroline von Humboldt to dinner on her birthday, and she ...
Barthold Georg Niebuhr
Ludwig Nicolovius
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Frederik Schmidt
Frederik Schmidt
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B.S. Ingemann
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Peder Hjort
Olivia Catharine Rasbech
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Possibly the first half of 1819
Thomson Bonar
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen is invited for dinner at the Bonars.
Franziska Caspers
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On behalf of Princess Grassalkovich, Caspers invites Thorvaldsen to supper the next day, i.e. 5.1...
Katherine Sophie de Bray
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Katherine Sophie de Bray invites Thorvaldsen to dinner on Friday at 6:30 pm.
Franziska Caspers
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Through Knudtzon, Caspers has heard that Thorvaldsen is going to the Vatican the same evening wit...
P.O. Brøndsted
Holger Halling Aagaard
Brøndsted writes that he sees Thorvaldsen every day. He praises Thorvaldsen’s latest works, Cupid...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted asks Thorvaldsen to lend him a clock. He does not want to interfere in a matter concern...
Caroline von Humboldt
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Caroline von Humboldt invites Thorvaldsen to come and talk to her the same day; however, she is b...
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Scavenius called on "Christian Carl Friedrich August":/personer/christian-carl-friedric...
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Scavenius visited Thorvaldsen and saw him modelling Cupid and the Graces, cf. A29. Thorvaldsen ha...
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Scavenius celebrated his father’s birthday at the trattoria The Ermine, where Thorvaldsen was als...
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Scavenius visited the Galleria Borghese and Thorvaldsen’s workshop, which is overrun by with visi...
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Scavenius saw an exhibition of works by Scandinavian artists in the Palazzo Caffarelli in Rome, w...
NN, Frederik Carl Emil von Scholten
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Two greetings in Thorvaldsen’s album.
Peder Hjort, Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Two greetings in Thorvaldsen’s album.
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Scavenius visited Thorvaldsen’s workshop and in the afternoon went to La Storta for a big party o...
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Scavenius’ diary describing a four-day hiking and horse riding trip to the Alban Hills with...
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Scavenius studied Barthold Georg Niebuhr’s Römische Geschichte and visited Thorvaldsen’s workshop.
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Dinner at Scavenius’ house, where Thorvaldsen talked about Canova’s equestrian statue of Charles ...
P.O. Brøndsted
Marie Aagaard
Brøndsted tells Aagaard that Thorvaldsen has left Rome, which is good because there were so many ...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted writes that he has been busy showing the newly arrived Royal Couple from Denmark around...
Franziska Caspers
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Caspers suffers because she has not heard from Thorvaldsen. She often reads about him in the news...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
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Christian 8.
Christian 8.
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Christian 8.
Christian 8.
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Zinaida Aleksandrovna Volkonskaia
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Invitation to pay a visit between 1 and 6 p.m. to the Palazzino Sciarra, where Zinaida Volkonskai...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
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Christian 8.
Christian 8.
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Christian 8.
Christian 8.
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Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen has arrived in Rome that day and has tea in the evening with Christian (8.) Frederik ...
P.O. Brøndsted
Marie Aagaard
Thorvaldsen was with Brøndsted while he wrote the letter and sends his regards.
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...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen is working on the bust of Christian (8.) Frederik, cf. A197.
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.
Dinner with Vincenzo Camuccini, Thorvaldsen, C.F. Rumohr, and Luigi Godard. He has received trans...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Visits Thorvaldsen, who is working on the bust of Caroline Amalie, cf. A754.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Dinner with Thorvaldsen, Vincenzo Camuccini, C.F. Rumohr, Wolf Heinrich Friedrich Karl von Baudis...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen and Rudolf Schadow model and others draw the beautiful Vittoria Caldoni, whom August ...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Sends a drawing of his bust, cf. either A197 or A753, to Countess Pauline Escalon.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Christian (8.) Frederik visits Thorvaldsen with an offer of a commission for Hermann Ernst Freund...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Soirée with Wolf Heinrich Friedrich Karl von Baudissin, Friederica Juliane von Baudissin, Otto Fr...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Invitation to dinner with Christian Frederik and Caroline Amalie 6.4.1821 on the occasion of thei...
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...
John Cam Hobhouse
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hobhouse introduces a Mr. Harris, who is going to study in Rome. Hobhouse expresses an ardent wis...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted invites Thorvaldsen to accompany him on visits to collections of antiques.
Francesco Tantini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mr. and Mrs. Tantini ask Thorvaldsen to make a plaster cast of the bust of their mutual friend, C...
Cecilia Tantini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Cecilia Tantini writes to convey Conrad Rantzau’s request to send his portrait bust, cf. A211, to...
Zinaida Aleksandrovna Volkonskaia
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Invitation to a soirée the following day at Zinaida Volkonskaia’s, where the heroic opera T...
Elisa Paulsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Elisa Thorvaldsen invites her father to her 10th birthday.
Louise Salvage de Faverolles
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Salvage de Faverolles invites Thorvaldsen for dinner next Monday at her villa in Rome.
Louise Salvage de Faverolles
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Salvage de Faverolles invites Thorvaldsen to come and see the illumination of St. Peter’s a...
Maria Szymanowska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Note from Szymanowska saying that she has a rehearsal at the Palazzo Ruspoli the same day. She en...
Ludvig Bødtcher
Ludvig Bødtcher
Bødtcher describes the farewell party for J.M. Thiele and H.C. Holten, followed by a moonlight wa...
William Haldimand
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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John Hay
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hay is vexed that Thorvaldsen has called in vain and asks him to come for dinner the following Mo...
William Russell
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Russell would like to visit Thorvaldsen’s workshop with some English friends, Mr. and Mrs. ...
Ludvig Bødtcher
Ludvig Bødtcher
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Antagelig tidligst 1826 og senest 1838
John Hay
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hay invites Thorvaldsen to lunch on Friday at 5 p.m.
Ludvig Bødtcher
Ludvig Bødtcher
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Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen is invited to Sigismund von Neukomm’s birthday party.
Harriet Cheney
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
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Omnes
The King of Bavaria, Ludwig I, visits Thorvaldsen’s, Pietro Tenerani’s, and Johann Martin von Wa...
Friedrich August 2.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Louise von Panhuys
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Panhuys invites Thorvaldsen to have dinner and to accompany her and her party on their torchlight...
Fritz Paulsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
An invitation to join a large party of Danes the same night for a visit to the Vatican, where the...
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
Andersen has attended a magnificent ball given by Princess Anna Maria Torlonia, where he talked t...
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...
Franziska Caspers
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Caspers thinks of the times spent in Thorvaldsen’s company in Rome and hopes that their ties of f...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Helena Ponińska
Thorvaldsen sends his regrets that he is unable to spend the evening with Ponińska because of a b...
C.C. Hall, F.M. Knuth
Frederik Barfod
Hall and Knuth tell Barfod about their stay in Rome. They have attended the farewell for Horace V...
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
Marie Puggaard writes about an excursion to the Forum Romanum with Fritz Petzholdt and Hans Pugga...
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...
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 the preparations and the costumes for the fancy-dress ball in connection...
Scipione Barberi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Piano score by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti for a text by the Italian poet Scipione Bar...
Scipione Barberi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Song in honour of Thorvaldsen’s 39th Roman birthday in Rome. The text invokes Apollo, the Graces,...
Marie Lehmann
Marie Lehmann
Marie Puggaard and Hans Puggaard have visited the painter Carl Werner and seen his watercolour of...
Marie Lehmann
Marie Lehmann
Marie Puggaard describes the preparations for Thorvaldsen’s Roman birthday 8.3.1836.
Marie Lehmann
Marie Lehmann
Marie Puggaard describes the activities on Thorvaldsen’s Roman birthday 8.3.1836, when the guests...
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...
Marie Lehmann
Marie Lehmann
Marie Puggaard briefly mentions the last party before her family left Rome. Thorvaldsen allowed h...
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Omnes
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Fanny Hensel
Rebekka Dirichlet
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
John Gibson
Margaret Sandbach
Fragments of a letter which must have been written over several days because it first says that F...
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 29th part of 60 in all.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 30th part of 60 in all.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 31th part of 60 in all.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 32th part of 60 in all.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 33th part of 60 in all.
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Omnes
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
John Gibson
Margaret Sandbach
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 34th part of 60 in all.
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...
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 35th part of 60 in all.
John Gibson
Margaret Sandbach
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 36th part of 60 in all.
George Washington Greene
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Greene invites Thorvaldsen to a celebration of George Washington’s birthday.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 37th part of 60 in all.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 40th part of 60 in all.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 42th part of 60 in all.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 43th part of 60 in all.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 41th part of 60 in all.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 44th part of 60 in all.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 45th part of 60 in all.
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.
Angelo Bezzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bezzi is in financial difficulties and asks Thorvaldsen to give him his statuette Dice Player, G2...