Hector with Paris and Helen

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The scene is taken from Homer’s Iliad, Book 6, verses 318- 369. We are in Troy, which is being besieged by the Greeks. The reason for the siege is that Prince Paris has abducted King Menelaos’ beautiful wife Helen. But now Paris is very reluctant to take the consequences of his act and enter the war of which he himself has been the cause. His brother Hector, seen here in full armour, thinks this too bad, and it is precisely to persuade him to take part in the war that Hector here goes to visit Paris and Helen.

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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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