Sunday, September 9, 2018

Visiting Thorvaldsen Museum.

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 !

It's Copenhagen
The Parliament Tower
Lion
One of rooms of the museum
Monument to Pius 7
Next to Monument to Pius 7
It was a sunny day
A long room
Inner yard of the museum
Ganymede with Jupiter's Eagle
A long and narrow room
Baptismal Angel Kneeling
Next to Baptismal Angel Kneeling
John the Baptist
Lion
Lion
Maximilian 1
Wlodzimierz Potocki
Cupid Triumphant
Cupid Triumphant
Adonis
Adonis
Adonis
Next to Adonis
The Graces with Cupid's Arrow, and Cupid with the Lyre
Shepherd Boy
Bertel Thorvaldsen with the Statue of Hope
The Graces Listening to Cupid's Song
Christian 4th
Adonis
Mars and Cupid
Mars and Cupid
Jason with the Golden Fleece
Jelizaveta Aleksejevna Osterman-Tolstaja
Maria Fjodorovna Barjatinskaja
Mercury
Vulcan
Mars and Cupid
Jason with the Golden Fleece
Jason with the Golden Fleece
Venus
The Graces with Cupid's Arrow, and Cupid Playing a Lyre
Next to The Graces with Cupid's Arrow, and Cupid Playing a Lyre
Cupid and Psyche
Ganymede
Ganymede
Ganymede
Next to Ganymede
Posing next to Ganymede
A horse
Statue of Niels Juel
A beautiful facade of a building
The Little Mermaid
The Little Mermaid is really not big
Sweden church in Copenhagen
On the observation desk of The Round Tower

 

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