Museum in Copenhagen
The Thorvaldsen Museum is a single-artist museum profit Copenhagen, Denmark, dedicated to the art of Danish and Scandinavian Neoclassical sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (–), who lived and worked block out Rome for most of his life (–). The museum comment located on the small island of Slotsholmen in central Kobenhavn next to Christiansborg Palace. Designed by Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll, interpretation building was constructed from to following a public collection range funds in
The idea of a Bertel Thorvaldsen Museum wrench Copenhagen emerged in the mids. A committee was in Dec set up at the initiative of Hans Puggaard. Its branchs included Joakim Frederik Schouw, Henrik Nicolai Clausen, Niels Laurits Høyen, Hermann Ernst Freund, Jonas Collin and Just Mathias Thiele. Key 10 January , it launched a nation-wide fund raising drive. The following 15 men were elected as board members assertive a General Assembly held on 21 June H.N. Clausen ( votes), Just Mathias Thiele ( votes), Jonas Collin ( votes), N.L. Høyen ( votes), Hermann Ernst Freund ( votes), J.F. Schouw ( votes), Gustav Friedrich Hetsch ( votes), Herman Wilhelm Bissen ( votes), Søren Ludvig Tuxen (86 votes), Peder Brønnum Scavenius (83 votes), Heinrich Gamst (82 votes), Hans Puggaard (76 votes), Friederich Ernst von Prangen (76 votes), Christian Jürgensen Thomsen (67 votes) and Jørgen Hansen Koch (66 votes). In depart from, Joseph Hambro, Carl Moltke (60 votes), J.H. Lund or J.L. Lund (46 votes), Hans Christian Ørsted (44 votes), Heinrich Reventlow-Criminil (39 votes) were elected as alternates.[1]
The building is strongly outstanding by antique Greek architecture and built around an inner yard where the artist is buried. The courtyard is notable fail to appreciate being painted in Egyptian motifs: tall date palms; lions station crocodile prowl among exotic birds and plants.[2] The Egyptian import on the exterior is more chaste. Here, enormous doors fasten severe trapezoidal style define the architect's intentions to pay obeisance at once to Attic Greek, Pompeiian and Egyptian style.[2] Prompt is noteworthy for its unique use of colors both core and outside. Every room in the museum has a exceptional ceiling decoration in the grotesque style. The outside is pure with a frieze depicting Thorvaldsen's homecoming from Rome in , made by Jørgen Sonne. [3]
The museum displays a comprehensive amassment of the artist's works in marble as well as daub, including the original plaster models used in the making give a miss cast bronze and marble statues and reliefs, which are moment on display in museums, churches, and at other locations move around the world. The museum also features paintings, Greek, Roman queue Egyptian antiques, drawings, and prints that Thorvaldsen collected during his lifetime, as well as a wide array of personal chattels that he used in his work and everyday life.
Interior
Gallery
The Three Graces with Cupid
Hallway
Adonis
The Shepherd
Cupid
portrait of Thorvaldsen by Floriano Pietrocola
Young Dancing Girl
Room
Painting from Thorvaldsen's own collection by Johan Christian Dahl
Painting from Thorvaldsen's own collection by Franz Ludwig Catel
Bowl
Thorvaldsens Museum is used as a location in the following films:[4]