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ARCHITECTURE.
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Stockholm Exhibition, 1897. Art Gallery.
Within ecclesiastical architecture, the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in
Sweden exhibit the introduction of the »central church type», to which Tessin, Sen.,
gave the initiative by the Kalmar Cathedral. These eras, moreover, enriched the
churches with a lot of mostly magnificent sepulchral monuments and with
additional chapels.
For Sweden, the nineteenth century began with great political misfortunes
acting as a check also on architecture, and it is not until after the middle of
the century that this art begins to rise again. The first prominent architect
is the versatile and highly gifted F. V. Scholander (1816/81). With the
hnmble means he had at his disposal he managed to impress a character on his
works, amongst which the principal ones are the Technical High School (illustr,
p. 343) and the Synagogue of Stockholm. His successor, H. Zettervall (born
1831), began his work with the restoration of the Lund Cathedral, which later
on was followed by that of the cathedrals in Linköping, Uppsala, and Skara.
The insight he had acquired of medieval architecture was put to the test in a
great number of ecclesiastical as well as profane works of architecture. But he
also knew how to utilize the various kinds of renaissance style, as for instance
in the Malmö Town Hall, a State College in Stockholm (Norra Latinläroverket),
and other edifices. Thus, he opened the eyes of his age to the practicability of
other styles than the Italian renaissance, which, during the time immediately
preceding, had been more or less narrow-mindedly employed, and thereby, a3
well as by his sense for the picturesque, he gave a new impetus for future
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