I was a little bit skeptic when I was searching for museums in Copenhagen and I found one called NY Carlsberg Glyptotek. I'm more like a wine kind of girl, what would I see in a museum called after Carlsberg? I'm kidding, of course, because NY Carlsberg Glyptotek is a museum of ancient and modern art that really made my trip to Copenhagen. The owner of Carlsberg brewery, Carl Jacobsen created one of the largest private collections of French and Danish sculptures and paintings, antiquities from Egypt and Mediterranean areas. In 1899, together with the building, the entire collection were donated to the public by Carl and his wife Ottilia Jacobson. Cheers!
I was completely touched to find there exquisite pieces carved by Rodin in the French and Danish Sculpture exhibition "From Block to Body". The exhibition is open till December 31, 2015 so if you are around, don't miss it! You may admire most of the sculptures from all angles since a lot of them are arranged in a manner that gives the visitor the chance to walk around them. The exhibition shows the journey of the artists from a block of raw marble to an infinite numbers of delicates bodies celebrating life and love or, on the contrary, expressing dramatic destinies, fear of the sadness moment of death.
The Blessings, Auguste Rodin
Eternal Spring, Auguste Rodin
Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Rimini, Rodin
Ovidian Metamorphosis, Rodin
Shooting star, Felix Maurice Charpentier
...And a little bit of Greek tragedy: Melpomene, the Muse of Tragedy
If you are lucky as I was you even get the chance to visit the museum and listen to a concert on the background at the same time.
Athena wearing a aegis with a medusa head on her chest.
The museum has a lovely collection of busts as well, I photographed my favorites.
The next sculpture (photographed from three different angles) of two heads - one old and one young -represent a personification of two lakes: Lake Albano and Lake Nemi.
As a bonus for visiting this museum you get a special exhibition: Edgar Degas (ends as well on December 31, 2015). The French painter was always preoccupied by movement: running horses, dancing ballerinas and he beautifully captured their movement in wax figures. He only exhibited one sculpture in his career: The Little Fourteen Year Old Dancer that was displayed in 1881 at the Sixth Impressionist Exhibition.
The Little Fourteen Year Old Dancer
The French Masterpieces include Glyptotek's collections of French paintings of Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Manet, Degas etc. I didn't have time to photograph since I was very busy to exercise my new "talent": recognizing the painters...ok, stop bragging, Teona! :)
At the end I will show you just a glimpse of Egyptian art.
The eternal question: blonde or brunette? :)
Funky monkey art
The museum displays mummies and mummies' cases in the Egyptian burial hall.
Did you know that the Egyptians believed that after people die the soul takes the form of an invisible bird and flies among the living people and at night it returns to the tomb to get energy from the body. As long as the body exists the soul has a life...
At the end of the tour, relax for a bit and drink an organic tea or coffee in the beautiful Winter Garden of the museum.
I've stayed in Copenhagen for three days and I cannot really say I enjoyed the city very much but this museum was completely worth it and was by far my favorite place in Copenhagen.
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