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Christus is an 1833 white Carrara marble statue of the resurrected Jesus by Bertel Thorvaldsen located in the Church of Our Lady, an Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was commissioned as part of a larger group, which includes 11 of the original 12 apostles and Paul the Apostle (instead of Judas Iscariot ).
The Gefion fountain. The fountain depicts the mythical story of the creation of the island of Zealand on which Copenhagen is located. The legend appears in Ragnarsdrápa, a 9th-century Skaldic poem recorded in the 13th century Prose Edda, and in Ynglinga saga as recorded in Snorri Sturluson's 13th century Heimskringla.
Copenhagen surrendered and the fleet was turned over to the British. [9] Christus in the Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen, by Bertel Thorvaldsen. Denmark's finest architect, [according to whom?] Christian Frederik Hansen, and the city magistrate redesigned the cathedral in the Neo-Classical style. Due to a lack of resources they incorporated ...
A gift from Carl Jacobsen's Albertine Trust which was created to provide statues and monuments for the parks and squares of Copenhagen, the present statue was originally placed at Langelinie close to the waterfront but was moved to its current park setting when the Kastellet was reconstructed in the 1990s. [3]
Pages in category "Monuments and memorials in Copenhagen" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. ... Equestrian statue of Christian IX, Copenhagen;
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Image Title / individual commemorated Location Sculptor Created Installed Source Absalon: City Hall Square (Copenhagen City Hall: Vilhelm Bissen: 1901 Ref: Absalon: Højbro Plads
The Royal Cast Collection is held at the West India Warehouse, Toldbodgade 40, between The Little Mermaid and Nyhavn in Copenhagen. It consists of over 2,000 naked plaster casts of statues and reliefs from collections, museums, temples, churches, and public places throughout the world, from antiquity to the Renaissance.