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basilica and of the Gothic hallchurch with columns. The most beautiful
churches date from the thirteenth century, and represent a transitional style uniting
the imaginativeness and lightness of the Gothic with the soberness of the
plastic art of the Romanesque — a style so original and so artistically treated that
it is entitled to a name of its own: the Gottland style.
Photo. K. Sidenbladh J:r.
Ruins of St. Catherine’s Church, Visby.
Among the examples of Gothic architecture on the mainland we ought to
mention the splendid Cathedral of Linköping — begun during the Romanesque period,
but completed as a Gothic hall-church, in the details of which Gottland prototypes
have been traced; the Skara Cathedral and the Church of St. Bridget’s Nunnery
at Vadstena — these, like all the other edifices mentioned above, built of hewn
stone. It is true that, occasionally, Romanesque brick churches are found in
Skåne, but it was only with the gothic style that — under North German
influence — a real brick architecture arose, which in Southern Sweden has left most
of its creations, and in the central parts displays less pretentious but more
independent forms. A combination of stone and brick architecture is found in the
foremost mediaeval building in Sweden, Uppsala Cathedral, a nobly
proportioned structure, whose prototype is found in Northern France, with most of
its details carried out in hewn stone, but the shell in brick. Many Swedish
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