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walls in which to place the statues of the twelve
apostles. Intelligence of this arrangement reaching
Thorvaldsen at Rome, he, annoyed and indignant
at what he knew would much diminish the effect
which his statues would produce if standing free,
obtained from home the height of the niches, and
then, with a shrewdness
peculiar.tohim, made his
statues so large that they could not be placed in
them.
The architect was, therefore, obliged to
wall up the niches, and the sculptor obtained, what
was really necessary for their proper effect, pedestals
and free standing for his statues. The statue of
our Saviour was originally made for the Palace
chapel, but, as no suitable site there offered, and
the apostles having been ordered for Fruckirke, it
was deemed better not to separate the Saviour from
them, and thus that statue came to be placed in
the same church. But it seems that Thorvaldsen
could not save it from the unfortunate niche,
which is acknowledged by Danish and all judges
of art to be very injurious to its effect.
St. Petrikirkc, St. Peter’sy
the church of
the German Lutherans, in Norregade, nearly opposite
Fruekirke, built in a
quasi
Gothic style, with a
spire 260 feet in height. In the chapel and vaults
are deposited the bodies of several English. Among
them is that of
Waiter Titiey
,
E sq r.
, British
Minister to this Court for many years , where he