Sculpture
Bertel Thorvaldsen, strongly influenced by his lengthy stay in Rome from 1797, created many internationally recognized works in his pure Neoclassical style. His breakthrough was Jason with the Golden Fleece which was highly praised by Antonio Canova and purchased by Thomas Hope, a wealthy British art collector. Other well-known works are the large Statue of Christ in Copenhagen Cathedral and the Lion Monument in Lucerne. Many of his works can be seen in Copenhagen's Thorvaldsens Museum which was not completed until 1848, four years after his death.
Other contributors to sculpture in the Golden Age include Hermann Ernst Freund, whose work centred on Scandinavian gods, and Herman Wilhelm Bissen, who sculpted contemporary figures such as Landsoldaten (The Foot Soldier), a victory monument to the war of 1848-51.
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Jason with the Golden Fleece by Bertel Thorvaldsen (1802–03)
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The Lion Monument by Bertel Thorvaldsen (1819)
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Statue of Christ in Copenhagen Cathedral by Berthel Thorvaldsen (1838)
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The Foot Soldier by Herman Wilhelm Bissen (1858)
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