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作品信息
- 馆藏编号
- KMS1019
与此同时，在Nicolai Abildgaard的生活中
完整生平1772–1777
Sergel and Füssli: a turn towards Romanticism
In the company of the Swedish sculptor Johan Tobias Sergel and the painter Johann Heinrich Füssli, Abildgaard began to move away from academic classicism and came to love Shakespeare, Homer and Ossian. Themes from Greek and Norse mythology placed him at the forefront of Nordic Romanticism.
1772–1777 · 工作地
Rome
1776
A trip to Naples with Jens Juel
From Rome Abildgaard made a side trip to Naples with Jens Juel. Juel’s portrait of Abildgaard was turned into a medallion by Abildgaard’s friend Johan Tobias Sergel.
1778
Professor at the Academy of Art
Soon after joining the Academy Abildgaard was appointed to a professorship, teaching mythology and anatomy as well as neoclassical painting. His pupils included Asmus Jacob Carstens, the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen and the painters Johan Ludvig Lund and Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg.
c. 1780
The commission for the Knights’ Hall at Christiansborg
As royal history painter Abildgaard received a prestigious and lucrative commission for a monumental history of Denmark to fill the Knights’ Hall of Christiansborg Palace. The allegorical and mythological imagery glorified the government, while his teacher Mandelberg supplied the room’s decorations.
