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
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).
Danish art
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Danish art is the visual arts produced in Denmark or by Danish artists. It goes back thousands of years with significant artifacts from the 2nd millennium BC, such as the Trundholm sun chariot. For ma
The Gundestrup cauldron
Gothic frescos in Elmelunde Church
Landscape with Northern Lights - Attempt to Paint the Aurora Borealis, 1790s, by Jens Juel.
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Woman in front of a Mirror, 1841. French Neo-Classicism transmuted into Biedermeier style.