Thorvaldsen's Italian Journeys
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Copy of Peder Pavels’ diary and drafts of Thorvaldsen’s diary from Malta 1796-97.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen’s diary from his sojourn in Malta, Palermo and Naples.
Carl Ludwig Fernow
Johann Pohrt
Fernow has been on a week-long excursion in the country surrounding Rome with Thorvaldsen and oth...
Ercole Consalvi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen’s travelling permit valid from Rome to Leghorn, issued for his trip to Florence and M...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley is sad that Thorvaldsen has left Naples. He hopes to recover completely from his illness ...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart asks Thorvaldsen to let him know when he is coming to Montenero, where he can stay and w...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicolai Abildgaard
Thorvaldsen informs Abildgaard that he has been seriously ill. He asks Abildgaard’s permission to...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicolai Abildgaard
Second draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen tells Abildgaard that he is going to Carrara with Herman Sc...
J.C. Ulrich
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen’s travelling permit issued for his trip from Leghorn to Genoa and Carrara and back in...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley complains that Thorvaldsen never writes, but he refuses to repay him in kind. He is recup...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley is planning to remain near Naples until the middle of October and then go to Rome. He wri...
Herman Schubart
C.F.F. Stanley
Thorvaldsen is at Montenero, and Schubart writes enthusiastically about The Dance of the Muses on...
J.C. Ulrich
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen’s travelling permit valid from Leghorn to Rome, issued for his return after his stay ...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart reports that Thorvaldsen’s portrait busts of himself and Jacqueline Schubart, A718...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart is extremely pleased that Thorvaldsen is coming to Montenero after all, thanks to Conrad...
Conrad Rantzau
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Rantzau tells Thorvaldsen that he has sent a bill of exchange for 300 piastres to Rome through Zo...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley teases Thorvaldsen because he has not heard from him for a long time, but suddenly a lett...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley has received a letter from the mayor of Copenhagen concerning Gotskalk Thorvaldsen’...
Filippo Mazzei
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Filippo Mazzei writes to Thorvaldsen, whom he has not been able to meet in Rome, in order to invi...
J.L. Lund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Lund has heard that Thorvaldsen is working on the relief The Baptism of Christ, possibly A736, du...
J.C. Ulrich
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen’s passport for his journey from Leghorn to Rome via Florence.
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart hopes that Thorvaldsen has arrived safely in Rome. He mentions the mortally ill Caspar B...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Fragment of a draft letter: Thorvaldsen informs Schubart that he is coming to Rome after two days...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Fragment of a draft letter: Thorvaldsen has arrived in Rome, he mentions Caspar Bartholin and C.F...
Herman Schubart
C.F.F. Stanley
Schubart apologizes for not having written for a long time. Stanley is welcome to send him his le...
Herman Schubart
Georg Zoëga
Schubart is pleased to hear that Thorvaldsen – who is now in Rome – enjoyed being with him at Mon...
Filippo Mazzei
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mazzei contacts Thorvaldsen to clarify a misunderstanding about the size of the sculpture which t...
Tidligst september 1807, senest august 1810
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Conrad Rantzau
Thorvaldsen tells Conrad Rantzau that his bust, cf. A211, is ready to be shipped, and that the re...
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
Rauch writes that Thorvaldsen is feverish and has gone to Ariccia to get better. He is in a very ...
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...
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Rauch is helped by Thorvaldsen’s assistants in the execution of his monument to Queen Luise. Thor...
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Thorvaldsen is still staying at Bagni di Lucca in the company of Herman Schubart.
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Thorvaldsen is in Florence in connection with Elisa Baciocchi’s commissions. Jacqueline Schubart’...
Pietro Benvenuti
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Benvenuti writes that Thorvaldsen’s portrait bust of him has been cast in plaster, and that the s...
Francesco Barberini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Barberini has heard that the marble version of Monument to over Anna Maria Porro Serbelloni, cf. ...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva is pleased that Thorvaldsen is with their mutual friend Herman Schubart, and that he ta...
Caroline von Humboldt
Christian Daniel Rauch
Thorvaldsen has spent a month in Naples but still does not look happy and well. The clay model of...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva has arrived in Italy. He has read in the French press that Frederik 6. has commissioned...
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Scavenius’ diary describing a four-day hiking and horse riding trip to the Alban Hills with...
Herman Schubart
Peder Hjort
Receipt for the payment of repairs to a carriage in connection with a trip to Leghorn.
P.O. Brøndsted
Holger Halling Aagaard
Brøndsted writes about his Roman friends and about Thorvaldsen in particular. He is happy that Th...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen’s passport for the journey from Rome to Copenhagen July-October 1819 with permissions...
Luigi Chiaveri
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Chiaveri asks Thorvaldsen to speak to Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia as soon as possible regarding Ja...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted recommends places and friends that he thinks Thorvaldsen should visit on his journey to...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted blames Thorvaldsen for not travelling to Denmark by the route recommended to him. Brønd...
Johan Gunder Adler, Hermann Ernst Freund
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Adler writes to the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace, quoting a letter dated 30.6.18...
Adamo Tadolini, Antonio Tosti
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Tadolini asks Thorvaldsen to recommend him as a substitute professor at the Accademia di S. Luca ...
Marie Lehmann
Marie Lehmann
Marie Puggaard writes about an excursion to the country near Rome, about Thorvaldsen’s unexpected...