Agamemnon's Fight with Achilles. Baptismal Font, Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1770-1844, 1804, Drawing, The principal motif in this drawing is made with many tentative lines and is drawn within a rectangle, but it was never turned into a relief. The sketch for a font in the shape of a vase on a profiled base, on the other hand, was reworked in 1808-15 into a font in the form of a solid block decorated with reliefs on all four sides. Both the Homeric and the ecclesiastical range of motifs found approval in Herman Schubart, a Danish diplomat based in Naples and one of Thorvaldsen’s important early supporters., Paper, Color, Ink, Color, Chalk, Carbonpencil, Drawn, Height 280 mm, Width 422 mm, Draftsmanship, Drawing, European, Modernity (1800 - 1914)
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Agamemnon's Fight, Achilles, Baptismal Font, Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1770-1844, 1804, Drawing, principal motif, drawing, tentative lines, drawn within, rectangle, never turned, relief, sketch, font, shape, vase, profiled base, hand, reworked, 1808-15, font, form, solid block decorated, reliefs, four sides, Homeric, ecclesiastical range, motifs, approval, Herman Schubart, Danish diplomat based, Naples, Thorvaldsen’s important early supporters, Paper, Color, Ink, Color, Chalk, Carbonpencil, Drawn, Height 280 mm, Width 422 mm, Draftsmanship, Drawing, European, Modernity, 1800, 1914
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