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Alberto
In de roman Alberto vertelt Maria Helleberg het levensverhaal van de Deense beeldhouwer Bertel (Alberto) Thorvaldsen, geboren in de achttiende eeuw. Hij was de grootste beeldhouwer van zijn tijd en kind aan huis bij koningen, keizers en kerkvaders, maar groeide op in armoede. Een groter contrast met de sereniteit van zijn neoklassieke sculpturen en reliëfs is nauwelijks denkbaar. Het is geen toeval dat Alberto inspiratie vindt in het schoonheidsideaal van de oude Grieken, het biedt een volmaakt ...
- GenresHistorical Fiction
383 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2006
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September 3, 2009
I wanted to really like this book and in the end I just liked it. It's about a famous Danish sculpturist and it was interesting, but it lacked something. It was written in the first person, so everything was his point of view and in the end that just wasn't interesting anymore. It would have been nice to have some input from the persons around him too. But I learned something and that's always a good thing :-)
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