carl xvi gustaf Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/carl-xvi-gustaf Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:00:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Visit to Sweden http://toursmaps.com/visit-to-sweden.html http://toursmaps.com/visit-to-sweden.html#respond Thu, 09 Feb 2017 05:27:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=228981 In ICELAND there was a great flowering of this northern Germanic art. Notable examples are found on the carved doorways ofthe stave churches, like the one from Valthjofstad (11 th-12th c.) in the Reykjavik Museum. Until the beginning ofthe Christian period in Scandinavia, however, there is little artistic progress to record. The adoption of Christianity (c. 1000) marked the terminal point of Viking art, and the stone churches which were now built displayed the power of the new faith. These churches, the best preserved monuments of the Romanesque period, were originally simple buildings in limestone, later in granite. The finest

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]]> http://toursmaps.com/visit-to-sweden.html/feed 0 Sweden Travel http://toursmaps.com/sweden-travel.html http://toursmaps.com/sweden-travel.html#respond Wed, 25 Jan 2017 21:52:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=228967 In the Iron Age, which dates in Scandinavia from about 600 B.C. to a.d. 400, the decorative art of the Bronze Age disappears and is replaced by only the most modest attempts at ornament. The magnificent silver cauldron found in a bog at Gundestrup, near Alborg in Jutland (National Museum, Copenhagen), with half-length figures of deities on the outside and scenes of sacrifice on the inside, is thought to be a cult vessel of Celtic origin dating from about the beginning ofthe Christian era. The second main period of Germanic art in Scandinavia, the early historical period of the first

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