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<\/a><\/p>\nWe don’t normally like to sit outside at restaurants in Europe due to all of the smokers, but fortunately we were early enough that we had the outdoor area to ourselves.\u00a0 By the way, on this trip we have seen fewer smokers than in other parts of Europe.\u00a0 Still far too many, particularly with the younger crowd who you think would know better.<\/p>\n
Our mission for the day was a visit to the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, a museum that was made possible by Carl Jacobsen, the son of the founder of Carlsberg Breweries.\u00a0 The museum is filled with Carl’s personal art collection.\u00a0 It seems the Carlsberg family was quite generous with all things Copenhagen, as they keep popping up as benefactors all over the city.\u00a0 The central part of the museum is a beautiful large garden area.<\/p>\n This museum is mostly sculptures, which isn’t really our thing, but they did have some interesting ones.\u00a0 This is called “The Port”, so I of course had to get a photo of it.\u00a0 This was created by Constantin Meunier in 1895.<\/p>\n This dramatic one is “Perseus slaying Medusa”, sculpted by Laurent Marqueste in 1903.\u00a0 Pretty graphic for the time frame!<\/p>\n No sculpture based museum would be complete without some of Rodin’s work!\u00a0 Here is yet another version of “The Thinker”, which we have seen in several other museums.<\/p>\n Another Rodin work is quite impressive!\u00a0 This one is “The Burghers of Calais”, modeled in 1884-1895, and cast in bronze in 1902-1903.<\/p>\n This sculpture has an interesting backstory.\u00a0 In 1346, during the Hundred Years War, the French city of Calais surrendered to the English after an 11 month siege.\u00a0 King Edward III offered to spare the city if six of its leaders surrendered to him, supposedly to be executed.\u00a0 Edward demanded they walk out with nooses around their necks, and carrying the keys to the city.<\/p>\n Six leaders volunteered for this, despite their impending fate.\u00a0 Rodin’s sculpture depicts these leaders mix of defeat, heroic self-sacrifice and willingness to face death for the good of the city.\u00a0 After their surrender, Edward ended up sparing their lives when his wife intervened.<\/p>\n We then visited the two sections of the museum that hold Impressionist paintings, our favorites.\u00a0 The style of this first one seemed familiar to us, as he painted several pieces we just saw in Skagen, Denmark.\u00a0 This is “The Committee of the French Art Exhibition in Copenhagen 1888”, painted by P.S. Kroyer in 1889.<\/p>\n Carlsberg Brewery founder J.C. Jacobsen tried to get funding from the Danish government to send Danish art to a Paris exhibition, and when that was unsuccessful he ended up funding the entire project himself.\u00a0 This painting depicts the group that selected which works would go to Paris.<\/p>\n This is maybe not his best work, but I was happy to see a Monet in the museum.\u00a0 This is “Flood at Giverny” from 1896.\u00a0 Giverny is the spot where Monet painted his famous water lily paintings.<\/p>\n Just when I thought I had seen nearly all of Monet’s work, something like this pops up.\u00a0 This is “Les Pyramides at Port-Coton”, from 1886.\u00a0 Love the colors!\u00a0 Monet painted six versions of this, with four of them in museums, and two in private collections (damn shame).<\/p>\n Another gorgeous Monet I’ve not seen before, this is “Shadows on the Sea” from 1882.\u00a0 Again, just love the colors!<\/p>\n It was also a surprise to see a Vincent Van Gogh painting.\u00a0 Remember, this museum is the personal collection of the Carlsberg Brewery family, so having paintings by such esteemed masters is impressive!\u00a0 This is “The Pont du Carrousel and the Louvre” from 1886.<\/p>\n This is “Young Girls” by Renoir from 1877, another impressive piece.\u00a0 I’m sure I saw this in my Humanities textbook back in college!<\/p>\n You wouldn’t know it from the looks of it, but below is a Picasso, “Spanish Lady in Crinoline”, from 1901, during his so-called Blue Period.\u00a0 Quick fact, did you know that during the late 1850’s to late 1860’s that about 3,000 women died from wearing the hooped crinoline dresses?\u00a0 Apparently they easily caught fire from bumping into candles, and were difficult to remove.\u00a0 The things you learn doing research while writing!<\/p>\n Surprisingly, we ran across another Van Gogh!\u00a0 This is “Pink Roses” from 1890.<\/p>\n There were a bunch of Roman busts in the museum, maybe 100?\u00a0 This one is of Caligula, the Roman emperor from AD 37 until his assassination in AD 41.\u00a0 He has a remarkable story that is too long to depict here, but I found it interesting that the bust looks just like the nasty young king from Game of Thrones!<\/p>\n The museum even has some Egyptian mummies!<\/p>\n As well as several sarcophagus’.\u00a0 What a diverse collection!<\/p>\n As we were leaving we came across yet another Monet painting.\u00a0 This one is “Windmill and Boats near Zaandam”, from 1871.<\/p>\n Kim saw this small sculpture of Joan of Arc by Paul Dubois.\u00a0 This small wax work was made in preparation for a statue to be placed in front of the cathedral in Reims, France.<\/p>\n Here is the final sculpture in front of the cathedral in Reims, which we visited two years ago.\u00a0 Pretty cool when our trips intersect!<\/p>\n One last look at the garden in the middle of the museum as we were departing.<\/p>\n On our way back to our hotel we crossed this bridge, known as the Circle Bridge, which is supposed to depict the masts of sailing ships.\u00a0 We cruised under it during our prior boat tour.<\/p>\n On the way to dinner we passed by the Stork Fountain.\u00a0 The fountain was an anniversary gift to Prince Frederik and Princess Louise in 1894.\u00a0 According to Wikipedia it has been a tradition since 1950 for newly graduated midwives to dance around the fountain.\u00a0 Do they still have midwives in Copenhagen??\u00a0 Regardless, we didn’t see any dancing.<\/p>\n It was such a beautiful night that we snagged some beers\u00a0 from the Kayak Bar after dinner and relaxed on the waterfront in front of our hotel.\u00a0 We seriously lucked out on weather!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n