{"id":1041,"date":"2020-08-17T20:38:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T20:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/?post_type=index_of_artist&#038;p=1041"},"modified":"2020-08-17T20:38:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T20:38:37","slug":"thorvaldsen-bertel","status":"publish","type":"index_of_artist","link":"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/index.php\/index_of_artist\/thorvaldsen-bertel\/","title":{"rendered":"Thorvaldsen, Bertel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thorvaldsen, Bertel, 1770-1844. Danish sculptor.<\/p>\n<p>Thorvaldsen was a Danish neo-classical sculptor who created much of his massive production in Rome. He succeeded Antonio Canova in achieving a pan-European renown. His output includes classicizing sculptures (nudes and robed) and some sculpture groups (e.g. Ganymede with Jupiter\u2019s Eagle), Christian sculptures (e.g. Christus and twelve free-standing Apostles for the cathedral in Copenhagen), many portrait busts of contemporary men and women in classical style, but also scores of relief panels on classical topics (e.g. Nessus\u2019 rape of Deianeira). Thorvaldsen also collected many paintings by other artists. The Thorvaldsensmuseum in Copenhagen is veritably packed with the sculptor\u2019s prodigious production in plaster prototypes and marble finished products. Both the museum and the artist stand soundly as national treasures.<\/p>\n<p>The artist\u2019s surname is often anglicized to \u201cThorwaldsen.\u201d We follow in the OGCMA-online the Library of Congress authority file.<\/p>\n<p>Bibliography can be found at Oxford Art Online: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/gao\/9781884446054.article.T084718\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/gao\/9781884446054.article.T084718<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The catalog of the Thorvaldsensmuseum\u2019s indexing offers opportunities for thorough cross-referencing (for clarity\u2019s sake). Thorvaldsen worked with several different settings of Ganymede. Thus, OGCMA Ganymede1.0111_Thorvaldsen = Thorvaldsenmuseum A44, A45 (plaster cast), and A733 (plaster cast of a reduced version).<\/p>\n<p>IN the OGCMA, Thorvaldsen\u2019s works appear in numerous listings:<\/p>\n<p>~\u00a0\u00a0Achilles, Infancy, Wrath; Actaeon; Adonis; Ajax; Aphrodite, General List, Birth; Apollo, General List,\u00a0as Shepherd, Loves; Ares; Ariadne; Artemis;\u00a0Asclepius and Hygieia; Athena, General List; Bacchanalia; Callisto; Daphne; Dionysus, General\u00a0List, and Ariadne, Infancy; Dioscuri; Endymion; Eros,\u00a0General List, Punishment, and the Bee, Triumphant;\u00a0Fates; Ganymbde; Gods and Goddesses, as Elements, Vice and Virtue; Graces; Hebe; Hector, General List, Death; Hephaestus; Heracles, General List,\u00a0and Deianeira, Apotheosis; Hermes, General List; Hymen; Io; Jason, General List, Hylas, Golden Fleece;\u00a0Leda; Leto; Meleager, Boar Hunt; Muses, General\u00a0List, Poetry and Music, Dance, Drama; Narcissus;\u00a0Nymphs, General List; Odysseus, Return; Orion;\u00a0Pan, General List; Paris, General List, Judgment; Parnassus; Patroclus; Pegasus; Penthesilea; Perseus, and Andromeda; Prometheus, Creator; Psyche;\u00a0Syrinx; Zeus, General List.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thorvaldsen, Bertel, 1770-1844. Danish sculptor. Thorvaldsen was a Danish neo-classical sculptor who created much of his massive production in Rome. He succeeded Antonio Canova in achieving a pan-European renown. His output includes classicizing sculptures (nudes and robed) and some sculpture groups (e.g. Ganymede with Jupiter\u2019s &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"artist_index":[],"class_list":["post-1041","index_of_artist","type-index_of_artist","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/index_of_artist\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/index_of_artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/index_of_artist"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/index_of_artist\/1041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042,"href":"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/index_of_artist\/1041\/revisions\/1042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist_index","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist_index?post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}