Thorvaldsen's Workshops, Visits to
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Adam Gottlob Detlef Moltke
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A.G.D. Moltke transfers 200 piastres for his bust, cf. A212, regretting the delay. He would like ...
Caroline von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Having no portrait of her husband, Caroline von Humboldt and the couple’s children often visit Th...
Caroline von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt
In Thorvaldsen’s workshop, Caroline von Humboldt has again viewed the bust of her husband. She ap...
Redaktørerne ved Athene, Rasmus Emil Bruun
Christian Molbech, NN
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Caroline von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Humboldt calls Thorvaldsen’s frieze Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon “the most perf...
Caroline von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt
In the afternoon, Caroline von Humboldt is to view the Aeginetes together with Thorvaldsen.
Caroline von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Humboldt has viewed the Aeginetes, most of which are finished, and calls them “something complete...
Georgina M. Waddington
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Waddington informs Thorvaldsen that her daughter is to marry Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen, wh...
Arthur Judd Carrighan
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Carrighan recommends some Scottish noblewomen of the Gordon-Cumming family who are staying in Rom...
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...
Frederik Schmidt
Frederik Schmidt
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B.S. Ingemann
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Excerpt of Ingemann’s Reiselyren, which describes some of Thorvaldsen’s works.
Frederik Schmidt
Frederik Schmidt
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Edward Everett
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Everett has commissioned some copies of the bust of Lord Byron without specifying the material. A...
Franziska Caspers
Charlotte Thierry
Thorvaldsen has guided Caspers through the Vatican museum by torchlight. She admires his inspirin...
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Scavenius visited Thorvaldsen’s workshop together with Hermann Ernst Freund and admired some of T...
Clemens Metternich
Eleonore von Kaunitz
Metternich is sightseeing in Rome and visits Thorvaldsen’s and Canova’s workshops. Canova reminds...
Rud Bay
Gottlieb Schønheyder
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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 visited Thorvaldsen’s workshop and in the afternoon went to La Storta for a big party o...
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Scavenius studied Barthold Georg Niebuhr’s Römische Geschichte and visited Thorvaldsen’s workshop.
Christian Molbech
Omnes
Molbech’s account of his visit to Rome, in which he compares Thorvaldsen and Canova and describes...
Pietro Tenerani
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Tenerani informs Thorvaldsen about the accident that took place 8.11.1820 in one of Thorvaldsen&#...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Visits Canova’s workshop and comments on the sculptor’s works. Then he visits Thorvaldsen’s works...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Visits Thorvaldsen in his workshop, where he meets the Russian general Alexander Ivanovich Osterm...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Visits Thorvaldsen, who has modelled a bust of the Austrian Prince Karl Philipp von Schwarzenberg...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Visits the German painter Adolf Senff and then Thorvaldsen, who is working on a marble version of...
? (Fru) Butler Claxton
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mrs. Claxton has visited Thorvaldsen’s workshop and wants to knpw the price of a bust of Lo...
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound
The Earl of Minto describes a visit to Thorvaldsen’s and Canova’s workshops and compa...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva asks Thorvaldsen to send the busts of Christian (8.) Frederik and Caroline Amalie, cf. ...
Frances Mackenzie
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mackenzie asks Thorvaldsen when a visit to his workshop will be convenient. She suggests coming w...
Arthur Judd Carrighan
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Carrighan recommends John Gage Rokewode, brother of the late Thomas Gage, and Thomas Gage’s widow...
William Russell
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Russell would like to visit Thorvaldsen’s workshop with some English friends, Mr. and Mrs. ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Luigi Sommariva
Thorvaldsen responds to Sommariva’s letter of complaint regarding his father Giovanni Battista So...
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...
Wriothesley Russell
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Russell regrets that he has to postpone his visit to Thorvaldsen, but he has time after Monday.
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...
Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt
Omnes
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Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein
Omnes
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Karl August Nicander
Omnes
Nicander writes that Thorvaldsen has been awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Ba...
Antonio Nibby
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On behalf of the Grand Duchess Helene, Nibby asks Thorvaldsen to be in his studio that afternoon ...
Honoria Louisa Cadogan
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The sender asks Thorvaldsen to receive the Marquis of Douro and his wife, who want to see Thorval...
E.A. Russell
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Illness and bad weather have prevented Russell from calling on Thorvaldsen, but he is looking for...
Alexander Murray
Bertel Thorvaldsen
W.H. Gibbs writes that Murray has been to see Thorvaldsen, but he was not there. The payment for ...
Adam Gottlob Detlef Moltke
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A.G.D. Moltke recollects the old days in Italy and his impressions from Thorvaldsen’s workshop. H...
Magnus Theodor Moltke
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Magnus Moltke writes that his father, A.G.D. Moltke, has given him his bust, A212, and Angelika K...
François-Joseph Navez
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Navez asks Thorvaldsen to receive Adolphe Quetelet in his workshop.
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Mendelssohn has seen George Gordon Byron, cf. A130, in clay during a visit to Thorvaldsen’s works...
? Webber
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Dr. Webber asks if he and his family may visit Thorvaldsen’s workshop in order to see the m...
Fritz Paulsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Paulsen asks if he may call with Mrs. Horn the same morning at 11.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
NN
Emerson writes in his diary that he has visited Thorvaldsen’s workshop and seen the statue ...
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
Andersen visits Thorvaldsen for the first time in Rome. He seeks him in vain in his workshop but ...
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
Andersen has visited Thorvaldsen’s workshops and seen Psyche in plaster, A26, and George Gordon B...
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
Andersen describes Pope Leo XII’s visit to Thorvaldsen’s workshops in Piazza Barberini on St. Luk...
Maria Callcott
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Callcott introduces her cousin, Captain Dundas, and his wife and asks Thorvaldsen to show them th...
Marie Lehmann
Marie Lehmann
Marie Puggaard describes her and her parents’ first visit to Thorvaldsen. He surpasses all their ...
John Gibson
Edward Bulwer Lytton
Gibson wonders that John Lough neither visits other sculptors’ workshops nor receives visits in h...
Marie Lehmann
Marie Lehmann
Marie Puggaard describes two visits to Thorvaldsen; during one, he waltzed with her, wearing a dr...
Luigi Chiaveri
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Chiaveri recommends the British politician J.C. Herries for a visit to Thorvaldsen’s workshop.
Anna Ticknor
Anna Ticknor
The commentary to this diary entry is not available at the moment.
Antagelig 1839-1840, senest 1843
Adam Oehlenschläger
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Oehlenschläger writes a poem to accompany the poem he has written as an illustration of Thorvalds...
Antagelig 1839-1840, senest 1843
Adam Oehlenschläger
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Oehlenschläger’s poem written as an illustration of Thorvaldsen’s relief The Ages of Love, A426. ...
Redaktørerne ved Lolland-Falsters Stifts-Tidende
Omnes
Report on Swedish university students’ visit to Thorvaldsen in Copenhagen.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Christian VIII and Caroline Amalie visit Thorvaldsen’s workshop at 2 p.m. in order to see h...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Visits Thorvaldsen’s workshop at Charlottenborg and sees the original plaster model, Christ...
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 39th part of 60 in all.
Redaktørerne ved Aftonbladet, Carl Anton Wetterbergh
Omnes
The commentary to this newspaper article is not available at the moment.
Louise Malling
Just Mathias Thiele
Before his death, Thorvaldsen has apparently selected a relief for Malling, Actaeon Torn by his D...
Johann Scholl
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
Scholl testifies that the version of the relief The Graces Listening to Cupid’s Song , A602 that ...
Redaktørerne ved For tre Skilling
Omnes
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