Christ, John the Baptist, and the Apostles | work by Thorvaldsen | Britannica (original) (raw)

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Neoclassical sculpture

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  In Neoclassical art: Relation to the Baroque and the Rococo
  …examples are large marbles of Christ and the Apostles (1821–42) and a bronze of St. John the Baptist (1822) by the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen at the Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen. Thorvaldsen’s marbles, unlike Canova’s, are as neutral as the plaster models; indeed, the surface of the sculpture was…
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