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Queen Hedwig Eleonora and the Arts: Court Culture in Seventeenth-Century Northern Europe book cover

1st Edition

Queen Hedwig Eleonora and the Arts Court Culture in Seventeenth-Century Northern Europe

Edited By Kristoffer Neville, Lisa Skogh Copyright 2017
248 Pages 60 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 60 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

As queen consort and dowager, Hedwig Eleonora (1636–1715) held a unique position in Sweden for more than half a century. As the dominant collector and patron of art and architecture in the realm, she left a strong mark on Swedish court culture. Her dynastic network among the Northern European courts was extensive, and this helped to make Sweden a major cultural center in Northern Europe in the... Read more

Table of Contents





1. Introduction: Queen Hedwig Eleonora and the Arts
Kristoffer Neville and Lisa Skogh (University of California, Riverside; Victoria and Albert Museum, London)



2. "The Queen of the North": Hedwig Eleonora and her German Family in Paint and Print
Jill Bepler (Herzog August Library, Wolfenbüttel)



3. Queen Hedwig Eleonora’s Societal Network within the Tugendliche and the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft
Gabriele Ball (Herzog August Library, Wolfenbüttel)



4. Hedwig Eleonora as Dowager Queen and Administrator
Björn Asker (National Archives, Stockholm)



5. The Pretiosa Cabinet at Ulriksdal Palace
Lisa Skogh (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)



6. Hedwig Eleonora as Patron of David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl
Kjell Wangensteen (Princeton University)



7. The Wilderness inside Drottningholm: David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl and the Northern Nature at the Court of Hedwig Eleonora
Mikael Ahlund (Uppsala University Art Museums, Uppsala)



8. David Klöcker Ehrenstrahlʼs Portraits of Hedwig Eleonoraʼs Siblings: Invention and the Presentation of the Family
Lars-Olof Larsson (Christian-Albrecht-University, Kiel)



9. Hedwig Eleonora and Building as a Princely Pursuit
Lars Ljungström (Royal Collections, Stockholm)



10. Hedwig Eleonora and the Practice of Architecture
Kristoffer Neville (University of California, Riverside)



11. Hedwig Eleonora, Lund University, and the Learned
Anders Jarlert (Lund University)



12. Ballet, Kunstkammer, and the Education of Princess Hedwig Eleonora at the Gottorf Court
Mara Wade (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)



13. Hedwig Eleonora and Music at the Swedish Court, 1654–1726
Maria Schildt (Uppsala University)



14. Hedwig Eleonora in Print—from "Citronat" to "Wundermutter"
Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly (Oxford University)

Biography

Kristoffer Neville is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of California, Riverside, USA



Lisa Skogh is Project Co-Investigator in the Research Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum, UK

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