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The highly influential architect Martin Nyrop (1849-1921) completed a renovation project of Copenhagen’s “Stormbroen” in 1918. However, already sixteen years later he had come up with a new design for the bridge that was “prototyped” but never finished. This design included two relief sculptures, one depicting the Norse god Odin, the other Pallas Athena, juxtaposing the Nordic and the Classical in a very prominent public space that is highly revealing of the cultural politics of late 19th-century Denmark (a
Posted by Troels 13 June 2023 16 June 2023 Posted in Classical Reception , Heritage Tags: Copenhagen , Martin Nyrop , Odin , Pallas Athena Leave a comment on Odin and Pallas Athene in Copenhagen Frederik Poulsen on English Aristocrats Frederik Poulsen visited numerous English manor houses while working on his Greek and Roman Portraits in English Country Houses (1929) and scouting works to purchase for the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek . He describes these visits in a more informal fashion in several of his works,