@article{Nystrøm Simonsen_2014, title={Immortalised in Marble: Lord Byron portrayed by Bertel Thordvaldsen}, volume={7}, url={https://tidsskrift.dk/pdia/article/view/24137}, abstractNote={In 1817, the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen executed by request a plaster bust of the young poet Lord<br />Byron in his studio in Rome. It became one of the most celebrated portraits of Byron, and a number of plaster<br />and marble copies of the bust are to be found in museums and private collections in Europe and North<br />America today. Some years after the modelling of the bust, after Byron’s premature death in Greece, Thorvaldsen<br />accepted yet another commission: a full-size marble statue of the poet, meant to be erected in his<br />commemoration in Westminster Abbey, London. Thorvaldsen accepted, and work began promptly. Whilst<br />making his preparations for this full-size marble portrait of Byron, he executed two plaster models – the<br />bodies identical, but with different heads. The head of one of them, the one that would later be executed in<br />marble, was a replica of the 1817 bust; only minor changes were made before Thorvaldsen began carving the<br />marble statue in 1831. This article provides a closer look at four full-size statues of Byron in their current contexts:<br />two plaster models in Denmark, a plaster cast in Greece, and the final marble monument in England.}, number={7}, journal={Proceedings of the Danish Institute at Athens}, author={Nystrøm Simonsen, Karen}, year={2014}, month={Aug.}, pages={159–172} }