2 resultat inom Organisation Thorvaldsens Museum

As the grandparents of the artist lived near by Kalundborg he knew this landscape very well. Although Denmark is just a small country he loved his native land for its history, its gently undulating landscape and impressively long coastline.

This sculpture is Thorvaldsen’s breakthrough work. Jason was begun in Rome in 1802; finished in plaster and commissioned in marble by the rich English patron of the arts, Thomas Hope, in 1803; but only delivered 25 years later. This sculpture is Thorvalds…