Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
A total of 5 sculptures online
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
2 sculptures
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History 
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
85 works by or related to the artist
Drawings from the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
Funen Kunstmuseum, Odense, Denmark NEW!
Select the artist's name from the drop-down list and click the "search" button
Museo Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy (in Italian) NEW! 
National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
Alexander I (with a 360-degree Quicktime view - slow-loading but a nice touch)
New Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
The Three Graces
Philadelphia Museum of Art
(Tip: On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image)
Portrait Bust of the Honorable Mrs. Pellew
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany ( in German)
Hebe, 1816
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
Count Artur Potocki
(requires Flash 5; mouseover thumbnails to see artworks)
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Danish Museums Online (in Danish)
(You can switch to English by going to the very top of the site, but the viewable works are much fewer)
Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Bertel Thorvaldsen in the Art Renewal Center
Bertel Thorvaldsen in the Web Gallery of Art 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
1200 Years of Italian Sculpture (mostly in Italian)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Boston College Fine Arts Department
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Scandinavian Art (mostly in Danish)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Bertel Thorvaldsen 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
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