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Agamenons Fight with Achilles. Baptismal Font

Bertel Thorvaldsen1804

Thorvaldsens Museum

Thorvaldsens Museum
Copenhagen, Denmark

The principal motif in this drawing is made with many tentative lines and is drawn within a rectangle, but it was never turned into a relief. The sketch for a font in the shape of a vase on a profiled base, on the other hand, was reworked in 1808-15 into a font in the form of a solid block decorated with reliefs on all four sides. Both the Homeric and the ecclesiastical range of motifs found approval in Herman Schubart, a Danish diplomat based in Naples and one of Thorvaldsen’s important early supporters.

Details

  • Title: Agamenons Fight with Achilles. Baptismal Font
  • Creator Lifespan: 1770-11-19/1844-03-24
  • Creator Nationality: Danish
  • Creator Gender: Male
  • Date Created: 1804
  • Sculptor: Bertel Thorvaldsen
  • Physical Dimensions: w42.2 x h28 cm (Complete)
  • Type: Drawing
  • Rights: Thorvaldsens Museum

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