This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI. Departure for Rome.--Reception at Berlin, Dresden, Leipsic, Frankfort, Mayence, and Stuttgart.--Banquet given at Munich.--"La SociSte des Hommes sans Gene."--Visit to King Louis.--Sojourn in Rome.--Return to Denmark.--The Artist and his Museum.--" The Genius of Sculpture."--Death of Thorvaldsen.--His Funeral. Thorvaldsen had come back to his native country with the intention of ending his career in Denmark; but, on leaving Rome, he had promised himself that he would return once more, were it only to make a brief stay, to the city where the most important period of his life had been passed. Some unfinished works, were awaiting him in his old atelier, around which clustered the memories of forty-two years of his prolific artistic life. Only an opportunity was needed to decide him to undertake the journey; and this the sculptor found when the Baron von Stampe announced his intention of going to Italy THE ANGEL OP BAPTISM. with his family. The friends resolved to travel in company across the continent; Thorvaldsen wishing to see again those of his works which now ornamented the public squares of some of the larger cities of Germany. They set out the 21st of May, 1841. The extraordinary festivities occasioned by the artist's return to his country find a natural explanation in the just admiration of compatriots for a fame which flattered their national pride. The ovations following one upon another during the whole journey of the Danish sculptor through Germany present a spectacle which to-day may appear strange 1 In Berlin, the royal family invited Thorvaldsen to pass the evening at the Chateau Schonhausen (May 30,1841). A fewdays later (June 3), the artists of that city gave him a grand banquet at Jagor's restaurant, when, to...