This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ...but by fresh demands upon his time. Thus from Warsaw he was threatened with the arm of the law, because the model of Poniatowski's statue was not yet finished. For Denmark, too, everything was to be got in readiness, as a royal frigate was shortly expected at Leghorn to convey his works home. The Crown Prince of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 Excerpt: ...but by fresh demands upon his time. Thus from Warsaw he was threatened with the arm of the law, because the model of Poniatowski's statue was not yet finished. For Denmark, too, everything was to be got in readiness, as a royal frigate was shortly expected at Leghorn to convey his works home. The Crown Prince of Bavaria, and Count Sommariva, moreover, sent him urgent letters concerning their commissions; while the Duke of Bedford solicited his attention to the restoration of some antique statues which he had purchased for Woburn Abbey. And behind all these, Torlonia wrote again about the statue of "Jason." Strange, that in the midst of all these perplexities, we find him devoting all his energies to the execution of a new bas-relief, the subject of which had long engrossed his thoughts, viz., "The Ages of Love," a copy of which, in marble, was purchased by Mr. Labouchere (Lord Taunton). But Thorvaldsen had a very simple way of getting rid of his epistolary annoyances, for whenever he received a letter, the contents of which proved disagreeable, he would lay it on one side, and take no further notice of it. By March, 1825, the model of Pius VII. was completed, and at once became an object of universal admiration. As long as his powerful patron, Consalvi, had been alive, Thorvajdsen had been entirely free from any annoyance on the part of the cardinals; but now their bigotry began to show itself, and the question as to the destination of the monument was answered by their eminences with cold looks and portentous shrugs. "It would be a scandal," they said, "that a heretic should execute a monument for the foremost church in Christendom, to the memory of that Church's head." And the wily cardinals, knowing well Thorvaldse...
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All Editions of The Life of Thorvaldsen, Collated from the Dan. [Thorvaldsens Ungdomshistorie, Thorvaldsen I ROM, Thorvaldsen I Kiobenhavn] by M.R. Barnard