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The Lion of Lucerne is a rock relief sculpture designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen and carved by Lukas Ahorn in 1820 and 1821, located in Lucerne, Switzerland. It commemorates the Swiss Guards who were killed in 1792 during the French Revolution while defending the Tuileries Palace in Paris. The monument...
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Widely admired public memorial with strong emotional force and tourist fame, though outside core museum canon.
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"Jason with the Golden Fleece" is a neoclassical marble sculpture created by the Danish artist Bertel Thorvaldsen in 1803 while he was living in Rome. Depicting the Greek mythological hero Jason, the work shows him standing nude, holding the golden fleece, with his spear resting against his shoulder...
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Thorvaldsen breakthrough and Neoclassical landmark, historically important though cooler and less beloved than Canova's finest marbles.
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