1st Edition

Sculpture and the Nordic Region

Edited By Sara Ayres, Elettra Carbone Copyright 2017
178 Pages 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

178 Pages 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Histories of sculpture within the Nordic region are under-studied and the region’s influence upon and translation of influences from elsewhere in Europe remain insufficiently traced. This volume brings to light individual histories of sculptural mobility from the early modern period onwards. Examining the movement of sculptures, sculptors, practices, skills, styles and motifs across borders,... Read more

Contents

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Introduction

Sara Ayres and Elettra Carbone

1 Frederik II's Gothic Neptune for Kronborg

Kristoffer J Neville

2 Willem Boy & Willem van den Blocke: The Import of Flemish Sculpture into Sweden’s Courts from 1562 until 1599

Cynthia Osiecki

3 From Mobility to Stability and a New Mobility: The Flow of Sculptors to and from Sweden from the Late Seventeenth to the Early Nineteenth Century

Linda Hinners

4 Denmark and the International Mobility of Italian Sculpture, c. 1709–1725: Frederick IV and Giovanni Baratta

Francesco Freddolini

5 ‘The Box Built in Nordic-Arabian-Egyptian Style’: Geographical Mobility and Cultural Translation in Thorvaldsens Museum

Tabea Schindler

6 Reading Sculpture: The Remediation of Thorvaldsen’s Sculpture in Literature

Elettra Carbone

7 Medieval Scandinavia and Victorian South Kensington

Marjorie Trusted

8 Sculpture Hand in Glove with Architecture: The Sculpture Collection at the Finnish Parliament

Liisa Lindgren

9 Body Culture and Film Culture in Thorvaldsen’s Museum 1932–63

Claire Thomson

10 Raised on Blurred Territories: Mobility and the Monument

Sara Ayres

Index of Concepts

Index of People

Index of Places

Biography

Sara Ayres is Queen Margarethe II Postdoctoral Fellow in Danish-British Portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery, London, UK.

Elettra Carbone is Teaching Fellow in Norwegian, University College London, UK.