Classical Myth in the Art of Bertel Thorvaldsen

The exhibition “Classical Myth in the Art of Bertel Thorvaldsen” was presented at the State Hermitage Museum at the Winter Palace from July to October, 2021 and visited by around 40,000 museum guests. For the first time in one exhibition space, one could see eight sculptures – six marble reliefs and two marble statues from the Hermitage collection and eighteen drawings from the collection of the Thorvaldsens Museum. The exposition was prepared by the Department of Western European Fine Arts of the State Hermitage in cooperation with the Thorvaldsens Museum with support from the Danish Ministry of Culture, the Danish Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Denmark, the Augustinus Foundation, and the Ny Carlsberg Foundation.

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