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iv. education and mental culture.
T. Sergel: Amor and Psyche.
Otryades (in Paris 1778). — When he returned to Stockholm and its cramped
conditions, summoned by Gustavus III, an end was put to his creating of
statues; all his time was now taken up with making busts and medallions of the
members of the royal family and a number of distinguished men in Sweden.
But also in this field he did fine work, for which posterity owes him a debt of
gratitude; inasmuch as thanks to his medallions we now know almost the whole
circle of those people of note — in state affairs, literature, and art — who
surrounded King Gustavus III, even though their features are idealized. However,
he received some more public commissions, viz., the large group of Axel
Oxenstierna and History, a bronze piece placed on the pedestal of Gustavus
Adolphus II’s statue, which constitutes the first successful attempt in Sweden
at representing a historical personage in his real character; further, the memorial
of Cartesius, full of genius in conception as well as in execution, and the large
wall-sculpture of the resurrection of Christ — both in the church of Adolf
Fredrik —; also the celebrated bronze statue of Gustavus III, like the states-
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