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See also:THORWALDSEN, BERTEL (1770.1844) , Danish sculptor, the son of an Icelander who had settled in See also:Denmark, and there carried on the See also:trade of a See also:wood-See also:carver, was See also:born in See also:Copenhagen on the 19th of See also:November 1770. While very See also:young he learnt to assist his See also:father; at the See also:age of eleven he entered the Copenhagen school of See also:art, and soon began to show his exceptional talents. In 1792 he won the highest See also:prize, the travelling student-See also:ship, and in 1796 he started for See also:Italy in a Danish See also:man-of-See also:war. On the 8th of See also:March 1797 he arrived in See also:Rome, where See also:Canova was at the height of his popularity. Thorwaldsen's first success was the See also:model for a statue of See also:Jason, which was highly praised by Canova, and he received the See also:commission to execute it in See also:marble from See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Hope, a wealthy See also:English art-See also:patron. From that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time Thorwaldsen's success was assured, and he did not leave Italy for twenty-three years. In 1819 he returned to Den-See also:mark, where he was commissioned to make the See also:colossal See also:series of statues of See also:Christ and the twelve apostles which are now in the Fruenkirche in Copenhagen. These were executed after his return to Rome, and were not completed till 1838, when Thorwaldsen again returned to Denmark. He died suddenly in the Copenhagen See also:theatre on the 24th of March 1844 and bequeathed a See also:great See also:part of his See also:fortune for the See also:building and endowment of a museum in Copenhagen, and also See also:left to fill it all his collection of See also:works of art and the See also:models for all his See also:sculpture—a very large collection, exhibited .to the greatest possible See also:advantage. Thorwaldsen is buried in the courtyard of this museum, under a See also:bed of See also:roses, by his own See also:special wish.
On the whole Thorwaldsen was the most successful of all the imitators of classical sculpture, and many of his statues of See also:pagan deities are modelled with much of the See also:antique feeling for breadth and purity of See also:design. His attempts at See also:Christian sculpture, such as the See also:tomb of See also:Pius VII. in St See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter's and the " Christ and Apostles" at Copenhagen, are less successful, and were not in accordance with the sculptor's real sympathies, which were purely classic. Thorwaldsen worked sometimes with feverish eagerness; at other times he was idle for many months together. A great number of his best works exist in private collections in See also:England. His not very successful statue of See also:Lord See also:Byron, after being refused a See also:place in See also:Westminster See also:Abbey, was finally de-posited in the library of Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge. The most widely popular among Thorwaldsen's works have been some of his bas-reliefs, such as the " See also:Night " and the " See also:Morning," which he is said to have modelled in one See also:day.
See See also:Eugene Pion, Thorwaldsen, sa See also:vie, &c. (See also:Paris, 1880) ; See also:Andersen, B. Thorwaldsen (See also:Berlin, 1845); Killerup, Thorwaldsen's Arbeiten, &c. (Copenhagen, 1852); Thiele, Thorwaldsen's Leben (See also:Leipzig, 1852—1856) ; C. A. Rosenberg, Thorwaldsen . . . See also:nut 146 Abbildungen (1896; Kunstlermonographien," No. 16); S. See also:Trier, Thorvaldsen (1903) ; A. See also:Wilde, Erindringer om Jerichau og Thorvaldsen (1884).
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