Word: thorvaldsen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King Christian IV was Dutch. Of the five leading painters in 18th century Denmark, one was French and two were Swedish, and it took a Frenchman, Joseph Saly, to put Copenhagen's Royal Academy of Fine Arts on its feet. Even Denmark's most famous sculptor, Bertel Thorvaldsen, who died in 1844, spent most of his adult life in Rome and got most of his inspiration from the ancient Greeks...
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