 "New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand)")
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REALThe last Samurai.(TRAVEL)
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Byline: Jim Eagles
T OKYO's Ueno park is renowned for its unusual sights but this was surely the strangest: dozens of excited schoolchildren queuing to be photographed with a celebrity who has been dead for 137 years.
If you're visiting Tokyo you shouldn't miss the park because it is full of art galleries, temples, shrines, museums and a zoo, as well as lots of street entertainers and a collection of uniquely Japanese weirdos.
But I was there specifically to see the Last Samurai. Not the Tom Cruise movie but the real last Samurai, Saigo Takamori, ...
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Copenhagen Handelsbank celebrates the opening of its New York office by donating $10,000 to the Parks Commission for the restoration of a statue by Danish sculptor, Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen.
PR Newswire
; ...portrait by the Danish sculptor, Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen. The cast bronze statue stands...ceremony at the statue's base. Thorvaldsen (1770-1844) is internationally...1894, the 50th anniversary of Thorvaldsen's death, as part of a week...
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Forget sticks, stones: Those names hurt too
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...bin Laden would look with a good shave and a prison buzz cut? When sports imitate art Today's Birthdays: Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen, 231; Ahmad Rashad, 52. Excuses, excuses News Headline: "Man: Cookie Monster hit me first." Finally...
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 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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Christian art: Old religious works have a redeeming value, owner says
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
; ...Square may be interested to know that the angel came from the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen, where sculptor Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen's original Christus resides. Carved in Italy, it would have been in the cathedral as the baptismal font...
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Perfect--and vacant: Ruth Guilding visits a Canova exhibition in Rome that focuses on the sculptor's relationship with Napoleon and his family.(EXHIBITIONS)(Antonio Canova)
Magazine article from: Apollo
; ...Lansdowne's Sleeping Nymph from the Victoria and Albert Museum, posed like handmaidens around Josephine Bonaparte...professional prestige. Lord Minto (who preferred Bertel Thorvaldsen) was one of the few dissenters--he found the...
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Hope springs eternal, again.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques
; ...an initial run this past spring at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London). This dazzling overview, curated...astute wife, Louisa, by the Danish neoclassical master Bertel Thorvaldsen [1770-1844]). The works borrowed for the exhibition...
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Thomas Hope's 'true taste': this imaginatively staged exhibition pays handsome tribute to a great connoisseur, collector and designer.(EXHIBITIONS)
Magazine article from: Apollo
; ...the latest collaboration between the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Bard Graduate Center, New York. Thomas...produced in Rome by their protege, the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen, are starkly lit against black walls. If this beautifully...
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Mountains and music
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...Queen Victoria, still in deep mourning for Prince Albert, spent a summer holiday in 1868 at Gtsch, high above...revolutionary mob. As a memorial to them, the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen carved a dying lion, a broken spear in its flank...
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