page_title: Jens Adolf Jerichau
section_title: Years in Rome
hierarchical_section_title: Jens Adolf Jerichau / Years in Rome
context_page_description: Emil Jens Baumann Adolf Jerichau was a Danish sculptor. He belonged to the generation immediately after Bertel Thorvaldsen, for whom he worked briefly in Rome, but gradually moved away from the static Neoclassicism he inherited from him and towards a more dynamic and realistic style.He was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and its director from 1857 to 1863.
context_section_description: After graduating from the Academy in 1837, Jerichau traveled to Rome where he initially worked for around a year in Bertel Thorvaldsen's studio.  He established his calling through a bas-relief on a frieze in the royal palace Christiansborg in Copenhagen, depicting the marriage of Alexander the Great to Roxane.
  His early works such as the sculpture Hercules and Hebe (1846, original model in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek)as well as his colossal Christ figure from 1849 are in a strong Neoclassical style which bear clear testament to Thorvaldsen.
caption: Jerichau in his studio in Rome
exif: {"Image ImageDescription": "David Jacobsen (1821-1871), Billedhuggeren Jens Adolph Jerichau i sit atelier i Rom, 1871", "Image Artist": "SMK Photo/Skou-Hansen/Buccarella", "Image Copyright": "Public Domain (CC0)"}