Danish sculptor bertel thorvaldsen ganymede

Title: Ganymede and the Eagle ; Dated: –29 ; Artist: Bertel Thorvaldsen ; Nationality: Danish ; Artist Life: –.

Thorvaldsen quickly proved himself a better sculptor than his father, entered the Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts (which fully appreciated its promising.

Danish; Creator Gender: Male; Date Created: ; Sculptor: Bertel Thorvaldsen; Physical Dimensions: h cm (Complete); Type: Sculpture; Rights: Thorvaldsens.

Title: Ganymede and the Eagle ; Dated: –29 ; Artist: Bertel Thorvaldsen ; Nationality: Danish ; Artist Life: –

The effect of Thorvaldsen's sculpture is created mostly by the contrast between the smooth skin of the boy and his trusting nature, which is juxtaposed by the.

Danish; Creator Gender: Male; Date Created: ; Sculptor: Bertel Thorvaldsen; Physical Dimensions: w x h cm (Complete); Type: Sculpture; Rights.

The Thorvaldsens Museum Archives

Thorvaldsen: Ganymede and the Eagle
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Gift of The Morse Foundation

Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844) was a man of the people, his mother a Jutland peasant and his father a Copenhagen woodcarver from Iceland.

Icelandic genealogists later were to connect the sculptor—beyond his actual descent from decent citizens—with the 12th-century heroic chieftains, one of whom reputedly visited New England. But the Saga actually involved is Thorvaldsen’s own, and concerns the artistic skill and personal tenacity of the child of an unfortunate Copenhagen home who became the most famous sculptor of his day in Europe, and one of Europe’s great masters.
Thorvaldsen quickly proved himself a better sculptor than his father, entered the Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts (which fully appreciated its promising student) and, in 1793, received its gold medal and three-year travel stipend.

This was taken up in 1796 to study in Italy, and Thorv