George Gordon Byron

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In 1817 Thorvaldsen had received a letter informing him that the English poet Lord Byron (1788-1824) was spending a couple of weeks in Rome and would like to have his portrait modelled during the course of his stay. So there was little time to waste when the poet turned up in the studio, and things were not made any easier when Byron turned out to be something of a poseur. According to Hans Christian Andersen, Thorvaldsen told him how Byron suddenly assumed a tragic countenance when he was sitting to be modelled. Thorvaldsen asked him to adopt a more natural face, but the poet thought that unsuitable. “So I did him as I wished, and everyone said that it was just like him,” was Thorvaldsen’s cheerful comment.

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Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsens Museum opened on 18 September 1848 and was the first public museum building in Denmark. The characteristic museum building was built to exhibit the extensive life’s work of the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844) and today still looks more or less as it did when it opened over 150 years ago. Thorvaldsens Museum also contains Thorvaldsen's drawings and sketches for sculptures and reliefs. In addition Thorvaldsen was a passionate collector, so the museum also exhibits his extensive collections of paintings from his own time and collections of artworks and objects from Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquity. The museum also shows changing exhibitions that go into greater depth with aspects of the permanent collections, including contemporary art.

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