Thorvaldsens Museum
Neoclassical sculpture museum where the artist himself is entombed in a painted inner courtyard.
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This guide to Thorvaldsens Museum opens on the sculptor's sudden death at the Copenhagen Royal Theatre in 1844, then rewinds forty years to a struggling Dane in Rome about to give up, until Antonio Canova declared him a rival worth watching. It follows Thorvaldsen's decades carving marble figures in Rome and his triumphant homecoming to Copenhagen in 1838. You'll see the painted frieze above the museum depicting that very return.
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