Talk:Bertel Thorvaldsen

message: A group at the new Önsta-Gryta church (opened at Easter, 2007) of Önsta Parish in Västerås, Sweden, is planning in the fall 2007 to build a copy of Thorvaldsen's Christ in all-white LEGO. Some 20,000 bricks will be required for the man-size statue, and they are asking for donations of LEGO bricks. Reference: . According to the parish newsletter issue 4/2007 (församlingsblad (PDF), julen 2007), a project group at ABB Industrigymnasium highschool in Västerås has made a 3D scan of a copy of the statue. The resulting 3D model has been sliced into 221 horizontal planes. Each slice, corresponding to a unit height LEGO brick, is then segmented into squares corresponding to 2×2 sized LEGO bricks. --LA2 12:53, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Nu är Lego-Jesus på plats, Swedish news website Nyheter24, April 12, 2009. --LA2 (talk) 16:30, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: LEGO

message: His father was icelandic yes, but Thorvaldsen never set foot on Iceland and Iceland was a part of Denmark-Norway at that time. The article gives much too much weight to his icelandic heritage, which by no means was an important influence on his work - it would be more reasonable to describe him as danish/italian - he lived 40 years in Rome and his work is distinctly in a neo-classicist tradition.·Maunus·ƛ· 14:38, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree. Not only was he most likely born in Iceland but his father was a great wood carver and an obvious source of his artistic skills.-130.208.183.161 (talk) 08:24, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no evidence to suggest that he was born or Iceland, or ever visited Iceland for that matter. His father's skill or influence has little relevance for the question of his son's nationality.User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 23:53, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Thorvaldsen is not an Icelandic name, but a Danish one - the corresponding Icelandic name would be Þorvaldsson. But his fathers name was not Thorvald but Gottskalk, so if he had been named according to Icelandic patronymic naming custom his name would have been Bertel Gottskalkson. But he was not, he was named according to Danish naming family custom and his fathers Icelandic surname was Danified to its Danish equivalent and became a family name.User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 23:53, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

text: The most commonly used form of his name in Danish as well as in English is the non-Icelandic (referring to Thorvaldsen as a surname). This was even the case during his own lifetime as can be seen in the letter archive of his personal letters where everyone refers to him as "Thorvaldsen" in letters that Thorvaldsen himself received. So in my opinion replacing the current form with the Icelandic one would be undue weight. --Saddhiyama (talk) 13:56, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Icelandic?

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message: The following is now available in English from Amazon - currently E-book only as paperback (2019) reissue is out of stock.  I get lost trying to see where it would fit in the current article, so please may I leave that to others?
*The Life of Thorvaldsen, Collected from the Danish of J. M. Thiele, by M. R. Barnard Paperback – 8 Aug. 2019 This is a reproduction of the original artefact from 1865 translated by M R Barnard.
If someone has a copy, and can authenticate the story of the cakes at Malta - see Lorentz Fisker - a better reference on Lorentz Fisker's page would be appreciated!
Viking1808 (talk) 10:49, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  E book available 

message: The article has an entire paragraph about his birth date being unknown, yet there is one given in the infobox and at the beginning of the article (without a citation). So what is it? --jonas (talk) 19:02, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  birth date