The Art and Culture of Scandinavian Central Europe, 1550-1720

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The Art and Culture of Scandinavian Central Europe, 1550-1720

Name: The Art and Culture of Scandinavian Central Europe, 1550-1720
Brand: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9780271082257
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By Kristoffer Neville
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: October 14, 2019
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Pages: 256

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Politically and militarily powerful, early modern Scandinavia played an essential role in the development of Central European culture from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. In this volume, Kristoffer Neville shows how the cultural ambitions of Denmark and Sweden were inextricably bound to those of other Central European kingdoms.

Tracing the visual culture of the Danish and Swedish courts from the Reformation to their eventual decline in the eighteenth century, Neville explains how and why they developed into important artistic centers. He examines major projects by figures largely unknown outside of Northern Europe alongside other, more canonical artistsincluding Cornelis Floris, Adriaen de Vries, and Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlachto propose a more coherent view of this part of Europe, one that rightly includes Scandinavia as a vital component.

The seventeenth century has long seemed a bleak moment in Central European culture. Neville's authoritative and unprecedented study does much to change this perception, showing that the arts did not die in the Reformation and Thirty Years' War but rather flourished in the Baltic region.

List of Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Gothicism in Germania

2. Reform and Reformation

3. Frederik II and the Arts in Denmark in the Later Sixteenth Century

4. Christian IV

5. Minerva’s World

6. Two Queens

7. Absolutism

Epilogue: The Romantic North

Notes

Bibliography

Index

“In his beautiful and elegant book, Kristoffer Neville presents a new history of the architecture and art of the Scandinavian countries in the Renaissance and Baroque. Anyone who has been to the vast lands ruled by the kings and queens of Denmark and Sweden knows that this art is a revelation. Neville contributes here to a rewriting of Renaissance art, weaving together historical context and a close analysis of extraordinary objects. This is essential reading for students, scholars, and anyone interested in the diversity of early modern culture.”

—Christy Anderson, author of Inigo Jones and the Classical Tradition

The Art and Culture of Scandinavian Central Europe, 1550-1720

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