16th century art Scandinavian art of the 16th century

Art of the Scandinavian Peninsula

Kalmar union was crushed in the Stockholm Massacre (1520). The last king of the union, Christian II of Denmark (1513–1523) in Sweden, represented by Gustav I (1523–1564), inherited the house of Vaz, while in Denmark, connected with Norway, he continued to rule the Oldenburg house. After the reformation, art both in Denmark and in Sweden became quite a court, and court painters were almost exclusively foreigners here, as in England. Among these foreigners in Sweden and Denmark there were almost no Italians, but mainly Germans and Dutch. Leaving aside the simple residential buildings of the landed nobility, which here, as in England, were local constructions, the Scandinavian art of this time is therefore in essence only a manifestation of German and Dutch art of the XVI century. Therefore, we only touch it briefly, although there is no lack of excellent research for its history. Fr Beckett gave a small but comprehensive history of Danish art of the XVI century. It is preceded and followed by the illustrated editions of the same Beckett, F. Meldahl, Magnus-Petersen and EFS Lund, as well as the writings and articles of Sigurd Muller, Cornerup and others. The Swedish Renaissance after the ancient atlas of Dahlberg is systematically processed especially by Upmark.