Thorwaldsen

In the middle of the choir, in front of the altar, is the figure of an angel, holding a baptismal font, in the shape of a shell, which some call Thorwaldsen's masterpiece.

Up The Baltic Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark Oliver Optic 1859

Related to that: The Thorwaldsen Museum in Copenhagen sells “amended” sculptures.

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Thorwaldsen made pin money with portrait busts Byron, Schiller, Sir Walter Scott, minor Russian aristos, etc.

American Connections James Burke 2007

In 1828 as Pusey was leaving he commissioned Thorwaldsen to do a relief on the pedestal of the font at the German Chapel.

American Connections James Burke 2007

In 1828 as Pusey was leaving he commissioned Thorwaldsen to do a relief on the pedestal of the font at the German Chapel.

American Connections James Burke 2007

By the time Vernet met him Thorwaldsen had been in Rome for over thirty years and was famous, on nodding terms with Bavarian and Danish royalty, and designer of the gigantic Lion of Lucerne carved into the cliff over the Swiss city.

American Connections James Burke 2007

By the time Vernet met him Thorwaldsen had been in Rome for over thirty years and was famous, on nodding terms with Bavarian and Danish royalty, and designer of the gigantic Lion of Lucerne carved into the cliff over the Swiss city.

American Connections James Burke 2007

Thorwaldsen made pin money with portrait busts Byron, Schiller, Sir Walter Scott, minor Russian aristos, etc.

American Connections James Burke 2007

David, by Thorwaldsen, which delighted him, and some landscapes by

The Financier 2004

Italian Renaissance; bits of Venetian glass which he had collected with great care — a full curio case; statues by Powers, Hosmer, and Thorwaldsen — things which would be smiled at thirty years later, but which were of high value then; all of his pictures by representative American painters from Gilbert to Eastman Johnson, together with a few specimens of the current French and English schools, went for a song.

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