Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Bertel Thorvaldsen was a Danish-Icelandic sculptor and medalist of international fame, who spent most of his life in Italy. Thorvaldsen was born in Copenhagen into a working-class Danish/Icelandic fam
Portrait by Carl Joseph Begas, c. 1820
Self-portrait by Thorvaldsen while he was a student at the Royal Academy of Arts
Jason with the Golden Fleece, Thorvaldsen's first masterpiece
A portrait of Thorvaldsen, by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
Christus (statue)
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Christus is an 1833 white Carrara marble statue of the resurrected Jesus by Bertel Thorvaldsen located in the Church of Our Lady, an Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark in Copenhagen, Denmark. It w
Bertel Thorvaldsen
…Thorvaldsen is less well known. However, in 1896 an American textbook writer wrote that his statue of the resurrected Christ, commonly referred to as Thorvaldsen's Christus (created for Vor Frue Kirke), was "considered the most perfect statue of Christ in the world." The statue has appealed to the members of the Church of…
The original white Carrara marble statue, completed in 1833, in the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen, Denmark
The original plaster cast model of Christus (1822) by Thorvaldsen in Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark
Marble replica (1959) in the North Visitors' Center on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. This facility was demolished in November 2021.
Replica (1896) in the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.