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Bindesbøll.
Den er paa engang Museum og Mau
soleum, idet de fire Fløje, som rummer Danmarks
berømteste Billedhuggers Værker, omslutter en
Gaard, i hvis Midte Thorvaldsens Lig henstaar i en
smukt dekoreret, forsænket Gravhvælving. — Et
bredt Trappeparti fører op til Hovedindgangen i
Vestfløjen. Over Facaden er Taget prydet med en
stor Gruppe i støbt Malm (Sejrsgudinde med F ir-
spand, af
H. V. Bissen,
tildels efter
Thorvaldsens
Skitser). De tre andre Ydermure er dekoreret med
en omløbende Frise af
Jørgen Sonne,
udført i far
vet Cement og forestillende Thorvaldsens Hjem
komst fra Rom i 1838, hans Landgang paa Told
boden, samt Udlosningen og Transporten af hans
Værker fra Havnen til Museet. Desværre ha r F a r
verne og Materialet i Frisen ikke kunnet modstaa
Vejrligets Indflydelse, og en effektiv Konservering
har hidtil vist sig lige,saa vanskelig at gennemføre
som en Restaurering.
S a m l i n g e n indeholder Billedhuggerens Vær
ker, Modeller, Udkast, Afstøbninger i Gibs; de fle
ste af Museets Marmoreksemplarer er udført efter
Kunstnerens Død (1844) i Modsætning f. Eks. til
Statuerne i Frue Kirke, (se nedenfor). Museet rum
mer desuden en stor Mængde Malerier og Haand-
tegninger af Thorvaldsens samtidige Kunstnere,
samlet af ham selv, og endvidere en Del ægyptiske,
græske, etruskiske og romerske Antikviteter, an-
tike Møbler og flere fortrinlige Afstøbninger af
Antiker.
A d g a n g daglig 10—3; Søndag, Onsdag og
Fredag
gratis,
de øvrige Dage Kr. 1.00.
Haandka-
talog
(1 Kr.) og
Illustr. Vejledning
(2 Kr.) for
handles ved Indgangen.
N y Carlsberg G lyptotek .
(Dantes Plads ved Vestre Boulevard).
(IH. S. 44 og 45).
B y g n i n g e r n e. Kompleksets to Hovedbyg
ninger er opført til forskellig Tid, svarende til
Samlingernes Overdragelse til det offentlige. F a
cadebygningen mod Dantes Plads er ældst, indviet
1897 (Arkitekt
J.V.Dahlerup).
Paa Trappeafsatsen
staar opstillet to Arbejder af Antonie Barye:
»Siddende Løve« og »Løven og Slangen«; langs
Facaden: til venstre for Indgangen Johs. Bjerg’s
Statue af
Jerichau
og Portrætbuster af
H. V. Bis
sen, H. E. Freund
etc.; tilhøjre
Larches
Statue af
Poul Dubois samt
Portrætbuster
af Carpeaux,
Falguiére, Rodin og Meunier. Langs Sidefa-
chitect
M. G. B. Bindesboll.
It is both a museum
and a mauseleum, as tlie four wings, containing
the works of Denmark’s most famous sculptor,
enclose a little court, in the centre of which Tlior-
valdsen’s remains lie in a beautifully decorated
sunk vault. — A wide staircase leads up to the
main entrance in the western wing. Above the
facade the roof is adorned with a large bronze
group (representing the goddess of victory in
chariot drawn by four horses, sculptor
H. V. B is
sen,
in part from
Thorvaldsen’s
own sketches).
The other three outer walls are decorated wich a
continuous frieze by
Jorgen Sonne,
executed in
coloured cement representing Thorvaldsen’s
return from Rome in 1838, his landing at the cu-
stom liouse quay and also the discharge and trans-
portation of his works from the harbour to the mu
seum. Unfortunately neither colours nor material
have been able to stand the climate, and so far it
has proved equally difficult to restore or ef-
fectively preserve same.
T h e c o l l e c t i o n contains the works of the
sculptor, models, sketches, and plaster casts; the
majority of the marble exhibits in the museum
have been executed after his death (1844), contrary
to what is the case with the statues in »Vor Frue
Kirke« (see below). The museum also contains a
large number of paintings and drawings by Thor
valdsen’s greatest contemporaries, collected by
himself; and furlher a number of Egyptian, Greek,
Etrurian and Roman antiquities, antique furniture
and several excellent casts of antiques.
A d m i s s i o n , daily 10—3; Sunday, Wednes-
day and Friday, free, other days Kr. 1.
Illustrated
catalogue
in English can be had in the vestibule
(1 Kr.).
N y Carlsberg G lyptotek (G lyp totheca).
(Dante’s Plads, Vestre Boulevard).
(See page 44—45).
T h e b u i l d i n g s. The two main buildings of
the block have been built at different times coin-
ciding with the collections becoming public pro
perty. The facade building facing Dantes Plads is
the oldest, and was opened in 1897 (Architect
J. V.
Dahlerup).
In front of the building there are two
works by
Antoine Barye:
»Seated lion« and »Lion
and snake«; along the facade to the left of the
entrance, statue of
Jerichau
and portrait busts of
H. V. Bissen, N. E. Freund
etc., to the right
Lar-
che’s
statue of
Paul Dubois,
and portrait busts of
Carpeaux, Falguiére, Rodin
and
Meunier.
Along
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