Johannes Wiedewelt
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Johannes Wiedewelt, Danish neoclassical sculptor. He became a court sculptor, introducing neoclassical ideals to Denmark in the form of palace decorations, garden sculptures artifacts and, especially,
Johannes Wiedewelt as painted by Peder Als in 1766.
Nicolai Abildgaard
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Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard was a Danish neoclassical and royal history painter, sculptor, architect, and professor of painting, mythology, and anatomy at the New Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenha
Johannes Wiedewelt
…which is one of four sculptures in this large piece, and with the relief Retfærdighedens Genius. The other artists who contributed to the monument were Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard, who designed the overall monument, colleague Andreas Weidenhaupt and Nicolai Dajon. Between 1785 and 1801, Wiedewelt created fifteen monuments for the…
Portrait by Jens Juel (1772)
The Wounded Philoctetes (1775)
Cabinet painted in trompe-l'œil fashion by Abildgaard
Nightmare (1800) after Henry Fuseli's The Nightmare (1781).