The Thorvaldsen Museum is a single-artist museum in Copenhagen, Denmark. The museum is dedicated to the art of Danish neoclassicistic sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844), who lived and worked in Rome for most of his life (1796–1838). The museum is situated on the small island of Slotsholmen in central Copenhagen next to Christiansborg Palace. The building was designed by Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll and constructed from 1838-48 following a public collection of funds in 1837.
The museum displays a great collection of the artist's works in marble as well as plaster, including the original plaster models used in the making of bronze and marble statues and reliefs, which are now on display in museums, churches, and at other places around the world. The museum also features paintings, Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiques, drawings, and prints which Thorvaldsen collected during his life, as well as a lot of his personal belongings that he used in his work and everyday life.
Welcome to The Thorvaldsen Museum !
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It's Copenhagen |
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The Parliament Tower |
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Lion |
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One of rooms of the museum |
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Monument to Pius 7 |
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Next to Monument to Pius 7 |
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It was a sunny day |
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A long room |
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Inner yard of the museum |
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Ganymede with Jupiter's Eagle |
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A long and narrow room |
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Baptismal Angel Kneeling |
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Next to Baptismal Angel Kneeling |
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John the Baptist |
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Lion |
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Lion |
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Maximilian 1 |
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Wlodzimierz Potocki |
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Cupid Triumphant |
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Cupid Triumphant |
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Adonis |
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Adonis |
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Adonis |
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Next to Adonis |
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The Graces with Cupid's Arrow, and Cupid with the Lyre |
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Shepherd Boy |
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Bertel Thorvaldsen with the Statue of Hope |
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The Graces Listening to Cupid's Song |
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Christian 4th |
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Adonis |
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Mars and Cupid |
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Mars and Cupid |
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Jason with the Golden Fleece |
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Jelizaveta Aleksejevna Osterman-Tolstaja |
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Maria Fjodorovna Barjatinskaja |
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Mercury |
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Vulcan |
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Mars and Cupid |
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Jason with the Golden Fleece |
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Jason with the Golden Fleece |
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Venus |
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The Graces with Cupid's Arrow, and Cupid Playing a Lyre |
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Next to The Graces with Cupid's Arrow, and Cupid Playing a Lyre |
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Cupid and Psyche |
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Ganymede |
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Ganymede |
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Ganymede |
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Next to Ganymede |
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Posing next to Ganymede |
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A horse |
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Statue of Niels Juel |
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A beautiful facade of a building |
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The Little Mermaid |
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The Little Mermaid is really not big |
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Sweden church in Copenhagen |
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On the observation desk of The Round Tower |
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