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Around 1880 Carl Jacobsen started buying contemporaneous French art. This was done on the spot, in the teeming Parisian art-life, and... Læs mere
Icons have a long, rich tradition, the latter part of which, a period much influence by folk-art, is beautifully represented in the Glyptotek's icon collection. This... Læs mere
The Glyptoteks collection of works from Etruria and the surrounding region of Central Italy includes many fine pieces from the Classical and Hellenistic ages.... Læs mere
The death in 323 BC of Alexander the Great saw the dawn of a new epoch in the Greek world, a world which, because of Alexanders conquests, now... Læs mere
The Egypt of the New Kingdom (1550-1080 BC) was an imperialist military power whose rule extended beyond the Nile Valley, over what is today Syria, Lebanon, Israel... Læs mere
The late period of the Glyptotek´s Roman Portrait Collection includes the Severan Dynasty, the so-called soldier-emperors and individual emperors up to the time of... Læs mere
Egypts Graeco-Roman period, which covers the centuries around the birth of Christ, saw the cheap mass-production of a large number of terracotta figures, which... Læs mere
In 1886 the French painter Paul Gauguin embarked on a series of experiments with ceramics, which resulted in a long sequence of finished works. There were quite possibly as many... Læs mere
Towards 1900, Danish sculptors were working in the shadow of Thorvaldsen, but without conviction. Carl Jacobsen saw sculpture as the bearer of an educative ideal, and... Læs mere
The representation of the body and soul of the human being was a crucial element in the concept of art embraced by Carl Jacobsen, founder of the Glyptotek. The works in this... Læs mere
The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek´s collection from the Near East is modest, but both select and wide-ranging.The chronological span is more than 7.000 years and... Læs mere