Thorvaldsen Museum

museum, Copenhagen, Denmark

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In Western architecture: Scandinavia and Greece
…the period 1830–1930 is the Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen, erected in 1839–48 from designs by Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll. It was built to house the collection of sculpture that the celebrated Danish Neoclassical sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen presented to his native country in 1837. The opportunity was taken of providing a major…
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