Cupid Triumphant

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The fact that the god of love, Cupid, is the figure most commonly seen in Thorvaldsen’s art is related to Cupid’s also being the most powerful figure in classical mythology – not because he is physically strong, but because he represents the power to which both human beings and gods are subject. Cupid Triumphant is about Cupid’s superior power in relation to the gods. “Triumphant” is not to be understood here as “exultant”; there is no self-satisfied malicious delight in the way in which Cupid is looking at the arrow’s point. “Triumphant” means purely and simply “victorious” – victorious over the other gods: Hercules is one of the first to have thrown in the towel in the form of the lion skin hanging over the tree stump behind Cupid. Apollo has handed over his beloved lyre to Cupid: it stands behind the tree stump; Jupiter has placed his thunderbolt at Cupid’s feet, and Mars has surrendered his helmet. Thorvaldsen executed the original model in Rome in 1814.

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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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