Bertel Thorvaldsen

Bertel Thorvaldsen, also spelled Thorwaldsen (November 19, 1770 - March 24, 1844), a Danish sculptor of European renown, was born in Copenhagen in 1770 (according to some accounts in 1768), the son of an Icelander who had settled in Denmark, and there carried on the trade of a wood-carver.

References

• Lauretta Dimmick, "Mythic Proportion: Bertel Thorvaldsen's Influence in America",
• Thorvaldsen: l'ambiente, l'influsso, il mito, ed. P. Kragelund and M. Nykjær, Rome 1991 (Analecta Romana Instituti Danici, Supplementum 18.), pp. 169-191.
• Eugène Plon, Thorwaldsen, sa vie, etc. (Paris, 1880);
• Andersen, B. Thorwaldsen (Berlin, 1845)
• Killerup, Thorwaldsen's Arbeiten, etc. (Copenhagen, 1852)
• Thiele, Thorwaldsen's Leben (Leipzig, 1852-1856); CA Rosenberg, Thorwaldsen ... mit 146 Abbildungen (1896, "Kunstlermonographien," No. 16)
• S Trier, Thorvaldsen (1903); A Wilde, Erindringer om Jerichau og Thorvaldsen (1884).