Thorvaldsen's Workshops
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Senatore Scarpetti
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Receipt for payment of rent for Thorvaldsen’s first studio in Rome in Vicolo Aliberti 1797-1799.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicolai Abildgaard
Thorvaldsen’s draft of his first report to Abildgaard on his activities in Rome. He has visited t...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Kunstakademiet, København
Thorvaldsen reports to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts that he has studied Rome and its sur...
Tidligst 19. og senest 23.3.1803
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thomas Hope
Transcript of Thomas Hope’s copy of his contract with Thorvaldsen regarding Jason with the Golden...
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...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen thanks Schubart and his sister Charlotte Schimmelmann for the efforts they are making...
Efter 16.7. og senest 6.8.1804
Bertel Thorvaldsen
J.L. Lund
Thorvaldsen asks Lund to take care of his studio while he is gone. He thanks him for having assis...
Kunstakademiet, København
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Academy of Fine Arts announces that Thorvaldsen has been appointed professor of sculpture.
C.F. Stanley
C.F.F. Stanley
Stanley Senior writes that Thorvaldsen has been appointed professor at the Academy of Fine Arts i...
Arnold Wallick
Christian 8.
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
Pietro Cimino
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Receipt for rent for Thorvaldsen’s workshops in Vicolo della Catena. The period is not indicated ...
Settimio Cantoni
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Receipt for rent for Thorvaldsen’s workshops in Vicolo della Catena. The period is not indicated ...
Settimio Cantoni, Giuseppe Giorgi, Pietro Odazi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Twelve receipts for rent for Thorvaldsen’s workshops in Vicolo della Catena, for a period f...
Giuseppe Giorgi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A receipt for Thorvaldsen’s rent for his workshops in Vicolo della Catena 1.5.1810 – ...
Maria Rosa Alborghetti
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Receipt for rent, probably for Thorvaldsen’s two workshops in Via del Cappucini, probably f...
Alberto Alborghetti
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Receipt for rent August 1811 – January 1812 for Thorvaldsens’s two workshops in Via d...
Pietro Odazi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
7 receipts for rent for Thorvaldsen’s workshops in 20 and 23, Vicolo della Catena, for the period...
Alberto Alborghetti
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Receipt for rent February – July 1812 for Thorvaldsen’s two workshops in Via dei Capp...
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Alberto Alborghetti
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Receipt for rent August 1812 – January 1813 for Thorvaldsen’s two workshops in Via dei Capp...
Alberto Alborghetti
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Receipt for rent February – July 1813 for Thorvaldsen’s two workshops in Via dei Capp...
Alberto Alborghetti
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Receipt for rent August 1813 – January 1814 for Thorvaldsen’s two workshops in Via de...
Vicenzo Ossani
NN
The commentary for this accounting is not available at the moment.
Francesco Barberini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Contract between Thorvaldsen and Francesco Barberini concerning rent and conversion of houses at ...
Peder Malling
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted advises Thorvaldsen to return to Denmark, at least for a year. He encloses letters for ...
Pietro Odazi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Two receipts for Thorvaldsen’s rent for his workshops in Vicolo della Catena. The first rec...
C.W. Eckersberg
J.F. Clemens
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Pietro Camuccini
On Thorvaldsen’s behalf, Pietro Camuccini is to pay Prospero Mallerini 565 scudi for work d...
Alberto Alborghetti
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Receipt for rent August 1815 – January 1816 for Thorvaldsen’s two workshops in Via de...
George Hayter
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The british painter Hayter asks Thorvaldsen for a very small portion of clay.
Andrea Manazzale
Omnes
A reference to Thorvaldsen’s workshops in Vicolo delle Colonnette near Piazza Barberini in Rome.
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Jørgen Knudtzon
Thorvaldsen writes that he has been very busy working and showing his workshop to English visitor...
Pietro Odazi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Receipt for six months’ rent for Thorvaldsen’s workshops in Vicolo della Catena, for the period 1...
Caroline von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Thorvaldsen has shown Humboldt, Brandenburg, and Roeder a wealth of beautiful figures in his five...
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Caroline von Humboldt
Humbolt thinks that Thorvaldsen’s workshop forms a whole of rich and great figures. He thinks tha...
Herman Schubart
Christian 8.
Schubart assures the concerned Christian Frederik that the Alexander Frieze for Frederik 6.’s new...
Pietro Odazi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Receipt for six months’ rent for Thorvaldsen’s workshops in Vicolo della Catena, for the period 1...
B.S. Ingemann
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Excerpt of Ingemann’s Reiselyren, which describes some of Thorvaldsen’s works.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Workshop accounts for one or several weeks in November 1818.
Pietro Odazi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Receipt for six months’ rent for Thorvaldsen’s workshops in Vicolo della Catena, for the period 1...
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Scavenius and Brøndsted called on Thorvaldsen, but they did not speak to him as he was busy worki...
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 visited Thorvaldsen’s workshop together with Hermann Ernst Freund and admired some of T...
Rud Bay
Gottlieb Schønheyder
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Rud Bay
Gottlieb Schønheyder
Rud Bay describes his frequent visits to Thorvaldsen’s studio and his fascination when watching h...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller gives instructions concerning measurements and special circumstances in connection with th...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted blames Thorvaldsen for not travelling to Denmark by the route recommended to him. Brønd...
Redaktørerne ved Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn
Omnes
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
Christian 8.
C.F. Hansen
Christian Frederik has considered to interrupt his grand tour of Europe temporarily in order to g...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian Frederik complains that Thorvaldsen is in Copenhagen now that he himself will soon be i...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
Hermann Ernst Freund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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...
Peder Horrebow Haste
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Haste regrets that he is unable to write a poem to express his love for Thorvaldsen, the man. He ...
Hermann Ernst Freund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Freund tells Thorvaldsen about the accident that took place 8.11.1820 in one of Thorvaldsen’s wor...
Redaktørerne ved Diario di Roma
Omnes
A brief mention of the floor collapse in Thorvaldsen’s workshop 8.11.1820
P.O. Brøndsted
Holger Halling Aagaard
Brøndsted is happy that Thorvaldsen has returned to Rome. The floor in one of Thorvaldsen’s studi...
Franziska Caspers
Charlotte Thierry
Caspers has sent a crate with a plaster portrait of Thorvaldsen to Thierry through a Mr. Abendrot...
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...
P.O. Brøndsted
Jens Møller
Brøndsted describes a trip he has made in the company of Thorvaldsen and his assistant, Tenerani....
Francesco Barberini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Francesco Tantini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mr. and Mrs. Tantini ask Thorvaldsen to make a plaster cast of the bust of their mutual friend, C...
C.W. Eckersberg
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A warm greeting from Copenhagen, which Thorvaldsen acknowledges by sending Eckersberg’s bust, A78...
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...
G. Petrozzani
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
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...
Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein
Omnes
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
Luigi Bienaimé
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this account is not available at the moment.
Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
Omnes
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
Adam Gottlob Detlef Moltke
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A.G.D. Moltke recollects the old days in Italy and his impressions from Thorvaldsen’s workshop. H...
Jacques-Ignace Hittorff
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hittorff recommends the French architect Jean Pollet. He hopes to see Thorvaldsen and Rome again ...
Hermann Ernst Freund, Just Mathias Thiele
Omnes
Thiele repeats Freund’s account of the accident that took place in one of Thorvaldsen’s workshops...
Christian 8.
Just Mathias Thiele
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Redaktørerne ved Dagen
Omnes
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
Eduard Magnus
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Magnus recommends his friend Eduard Scholl, an art-lover, to Thorvaldsen and hopes that he or Bie...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian (8.) Frederik Is pleased that Thorvaldsen intends to come to Copenhagen in the spring o...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen confirms receipt of the letter announcing that a naval vessel will arrive at Leghorn ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
NN
Emerson writes in his diary that he has visited Thorvaldsen’s workshop and seen the statue ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
An accident with the marble for the portrait statue of Caroline Amalie makes it impossible for Th...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian (8.) Frederik is looking forward to seeing Thorvaldsen again in Copenhagen in the autum...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen
Thorvaldsen thanks Hansen for his letters in which he mentions the pleasure, expressed by many pe...
Christian 8.
C.F. Hansen
Thorvaldsen should only send plaster casts to the Academy of Fine Arts and not works in marble un...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hansen is pleased the Thorvaldsen is satisfied with his appointment as director of the Academy of...
Just Mathias Thiele
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Jonas Collin
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Christian 8.
Just Mathias Thiele
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Josias Feddersen
Jonas Collin
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Hermann Ernst Freund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Elisa Paulsen’s dowry has been arranged through Jonas Collin. Among Thorvaldsen’s artworks transp...
Jonas Collin
Admiralitets- og Commissariats Collegiet
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Jonas Collin
Admiralitets- og Commissariats Collegiet
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Admiralitets- og Commissariats Collegiet
Frederik 6.
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Jonas Collin
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
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...
Kunstakademiet, København
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Marie Lehmann
Marie Lehmann
Marie Puggaard describes two visits to Thorvaldsen; during one, he waltzed with her, wearing a dr...
Henrik Hertz
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Humorous song in five stanzas at the Danish Romans Society’s celebration in Copenhagen of T...
Ludvig Bødtcher
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bødtcher worries that Thorvaldsen has not received his latest letter, sent through the painter Al...
Anna Ticknor
Anna Ticknor
The commentary to this diary entry is not available at the moment.
Comitteen for Oprettelsen af Thorvaldsens Museum
Omnes
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
NN
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this account is not available at the moment.
Kunstakademiet, København
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Christian 8.
Just Mathias Thiele
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
J. P. Sivertsen
Kunstakademiet, København
Specification of furniture etc. for Thorvaldsen’s rooms at the Academy of Arts in Copenhagen.
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Christian 8.
Just Mathias Thiele
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Kunstakademiet, København, Bertel Thorvaldsen
F.C. Krohn
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Redaktørerne ved Lolland-Falsters Stifts-Tidende
Omnes
Report on Swedish university students’ visit to Thorvaldsen in Copenhagen.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 3rd part of 60 in all.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 5th part of 60 in all.
N.F.S. Grundtvig
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Through the Icelandic legendary figure of Vølund in the song, Grundtvig establishes a connection ...
N.F.S. Grundtvig
Omnes
Grundtvig’s prologue explains the occasion of the following song. He sees the prologue as a key t...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Christian VIII and Caroline Amalie visit Thorvaldsen’s workshop at 2 p.m. in order to see h...
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 38th part of 60 in all.
NN
Omnes
A poem about one of Thorvaldsen’s slates in the Royal Academy in Copenhagen.
Louise Malling
Just Mathias Thiele
Before his death, Thorvaldsen has apparently selected a relief for Malling, Actaeon Torn by his D...
Jonas Collin
Christian 8.
Collin has learned that his first letter has not arrived, so he repeats the essence of its conten...
H.C. Andersen
Omnes
The commentary for this Thorvaldsen biography is not available at the moment.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Plays host to Friedrich Wilhelm IV, who, among other things, is shown several of Thorvaldsen’s wo...
Hans Puggaard
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
J.F. Schouw
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Kunstakademiet, København
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.