The art and culture of Scandinavian Central Europe, 1550-1720

Abstract

"Explores early modern Scandinavia as an integral and essential part of Central Europe. Examines the visual arts in all media from the Reformation to the fall of Sweden as a great power in the earlier eighteenth century"--Provided by publisher.

Contents

Gothicism in Germania -- Reform and Reformation -- Frederik II and the arts in Denmark in the later sixteenth century -- Christian IV -- Minerva's world -- Two queens -- Absolutism -- Epilogue : the romantic north.