Queen Hedwig Eleonora and the Arts: Court Culture in by Lisa Skogh

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By Lisa Skogh

As queen consort and dowager, Hedwig Eleonora (1636?1715) held a different place in Sweden for greater than part a century. because the dominant collector and customer of artwork and structure within the realm, she left a robust mark on Swedish courtroom tradition. Her dynastic community one of the Northern ecu courts used to be large, and this helped to make Sweden an incredible cultural heart in Northern Europe within the later 17th century. This publication represents the 1st significant scholarly ebook at the complete variety of Hedwig Eleonora?s endeavours, from the financing of her court docket to her position inside a bigger princely community, to her engagements with numerous cultural targets, to her public picture. because the individuals exhibit, regardless of her excessive profile, political place, and conspicuous patronage, Hedwig Eleonora skilled little of the animosity directed at many different international queens and regents, akin to the Medici in France and Henrietta Maria in England. during this means, she offers a version for a distinct and extra winning means of negotiating the problems of becoming a member of a overseas courtroom; the research of her situations hence provides a considerable measurement to the examine of early smooth queenship. proposing a lot new scholarship, this quantity highlights one tremendous major early glossy girl and her imprint on Northern eu background, and fosters foreign know-how of the significance of early sleek Scandinavia for ecu cultural history.

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