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12 spire, however, has for its architect his son in law Anthon. In the old town I shall name “The National Museum” also by Eigtved, and opposite it, the then magnificent Royal Palace, “Christiansborg”, with its stables and theatre, erected during the reign of King Chr. VI. by the architects Heuser and Eigtved and richly adorned by the greatest artists of the time (c. 1740). Unfortunately this most magnificent example of the barocco style in Copenhagen cought fire 1794 and only the stables and the theatre are still existing. Little by little, the influence of the Barocco disappeared, and the interest in the Antique awackened all over Europe, by the excavations made in Grece by your celebrated country­ men the architects Stuart, Revett, Cockerell and others;— similiar excavations were made in Rome by french and german architects.— Our own architects now began to study in Grece and intro­ duced the antique style in Denmark; one of the first examples is the so-called “Colonnade” in “Amaliegade” by the architect Harsdorff. —As mentioned above the Royal Castle was burnt in 1794; the next year the same thing happened to the Town Hall in the “Gammel Torv”, as well as to many other buildings, and with the 18th century we shall find, that much of the old- fashioned Copenhagen with its winding, narrow and insanitary streets has disappeared. At the first Empire, a new era begins and many buildings are raised. First the “Criminal Court” in 1805; Our Lady’s Church in 1809; The Royal Castle and its church in 1820, all by the architect C. F. Hansen; some years later, 1839 the museum for the works and collections of our great sculptor “Thorvaldsen” was raised by the architect Bindesb0ll.