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

ISBN-13: 9781032097244 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 248 str.

Kristoffer Neville; Lisa Skogh

Opis

As the dominant collector and patron of art and architecture in the realm, Queen Hedwig Eleonora (1636-1715) left a strong mark on Swedish court culture. This book represents the first major scholarly publication on the full range of Hedwig Eleonora’s endeavours. Presenting much new scholarship, contributors to this collection highlight one extreme

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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)

O autorze

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