THORVALDSENS ANTIKKER (Thorvaldsen’s Antiques). -en temmelig udvalgt samling (quite a selection of the collection)

Author: Torben Melander
Country: Denmark,
Language: Danish
Year Published: 1993
No. of pages: 158
Illustrations: 18 Color Illustrations. 249 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 11”x 8”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 8775210630
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Bio. Index.
Code: 1012

Price: $65.00

Bertel Thorvaldsen, the most world renowned sculptor from Denmark, who was very collected and as a result very wealthy in his time. In the middle of the 18th-Century, he lived and worked for 40 years in Rome and was an avid collector of many treasures from paintings to Roman and Greek marble sculpture from app. 100 A.D. to clay, bronze, Greek red on black earthenware, bronze sculpture, ancient glass, exquisite gold jewelry with precious stones from 1st- Century B.C., Egyptian artifacts from 600-500 B.C., Corinthian and Etruscan artifacts and a very large collection of scarabs and coins.