CopenhagenAndItsEnvirons

21 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.to him, 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 The statue of our Saviour was originally made for the Palace chapel, but, as no suitable site there offered, and the apostles having been ordered for Fruckirke, it was deemed better not to separate the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