Johannes Wiedewelt
Subtitle: a Danish artist in search of the past, shaping the future
By: edited by Marjatta Nielsen and Annette Rathje
Contributors: Københavns universitet. Museum Tusculanum
Series: Danish studies in classical archaeology. Acta Hyperborea -- 11; Acta Hyperborea -- 11.
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Copenhagen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9788763507875
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface --; title: An introduction to the life and work of Johannes Wiedewelt (1731-1802)  -- Marjatta Nielsen; title: The sculptures, the mythology, and the stars : Wiedewelt's sculptures in "Broad Alley" in Fredensborg Palace Park  -- Eric Erlandsen; title: For king and country : Johannes Wiedewelt's Roman drawings in his artistic practice  -- Marjatta Nielsen; title: Wiedewelt and allegory  -- Karin Kryger; title: Wiedewelt and plaster casts in Copenhagen, 1744-1802  -- Jan Zahle; title: Wiedewelt's memorials in Memorial Park at Jægerspris : "A Breakthrough into New Territory"  -- Else-Marie Bukdahl; title: Johannes Wiedewelt, sculptor and Freemason : Memorial Park at Jægerspris Castle  -- Erik Westengaard; title: Gothic art and Neo-classicism : connecting aspects in Wiedewelt's restoration programme at Sorø  -- Caspar Andreas Jørgensen; title: Artist and antiquary : Wiedewelt's catalogue of Egyptian and Roman antiquities, 1786  -- Anne Haslund Hansen, Vinnie Nørskov & Hanne Thomasen; title: Johannes Wiedewelt : designer of exhibitions  -- Helle W. Horsnæa; title: Wiedewelt the satirical Dane  -- Karin Kryger; title: Meetings with Wiedewelt through the years  -- Kirsten Lindberg; title: "A Rich and Inexhaustible Source of Grateful Commemoration" : Wiedewelt's monument to the fallen in the naval battle of Copenhagen in 1801 and contemporary patriotic culture  -- Tine Damsholt; title: Forum:; title: Cultural heritage and Italian politics -- Salvatore Settis.