things to do in stockholm Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/things-to-do-in-stockholm Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:00:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Stockholm Guide for Tourist http://toursmaps.com/stockholm-guide-for-tourist.html http://toursmaps.com/stockholm-guide-for-tourist.html#respond Tue, 14 Feb 2017 00:43:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=229027 The leading Swedish sculptor of this century is Carl Milles (1875-1955). Others include Carl Johan Eld (1873-1954) and Johannes Collin (1873-1951). The most recent generation frequently breaks through the boundary between sculpture and painting. Stephan Sinding (1846-1922) and Gustaf Vige-land (1869-1943; sculpture in Frogner Park, Oslo), both trained in France. Norwegian painters also have impressive achievements to their credit; among them the 19th c. Romantic painter Johan Christian Dahl (1788-1857) and his pupil Thomas Fearnley (1802-42). J. F. Eckersberg and Hans Gude (1825-1903) were associated with the Dusseldorf Sculpture by Carl Milles in the MillesgSrd, Stockholm school; Gerhard Munthe (1849-1929),

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]]> http://toursmaps.com/stockholm-guide-for-tourist.html/feed 0 Travel to Stockholm http://toursmaps.com/travel-to-stockholm.html http://toursmaps.com/travel-to-stockholm.html#respond Thu, 09 Feb 2017 23:11:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=228995 Trolleholm Castle Danish architecture of the Renaissance and Baroque periods came under Dutch and German influence: Kronborg Castle, Helsingor (1574-84): Frederiksborg. Castle on Zealand (1602-22, by H. von Steenwinkel and A. von Opbergen); and, in Copenhagen, Dyvekes Hus (1 61 6), the Exchange (161 9-25), the Trinity Church (1632-56) and Christiansborg Palace (1731-40), by Elias David Hausser (1687-1745). Copenhagen was planned as a fortified town of the Baroque period, and Nicolai Eigtved (1701-54) laid out the Amalienborg quarter, bringing the French Rococo style to Denmark but imparting to it his own distinctive note of cool elegance (Prince’s Palace, now the

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