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Dark forests, red cottages, ABBA, Volvo and Ikea? The Culture of Sweden is arguably what has made Sweden known in the world. In the outskirts of Europe the country developed its style isolated from the main cultures in the world. When Sweden's culture began spreading in the world, it was through the traditions of the century old flavours, which had been fostered and nourished and now sprung into a crescendo. The distinguished and honoured 20th century artists in Sweden have all been marked by th ...

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Uppland (listen ▶ (help·info)) is a historical province or landskap on the eastern coast of Sweden. It borders Södermanland, Västmanland and Gästrikland. It is also bounded by lake Mälaren and the Baltic sea. The name literally means Upland, a name which is commonly encountered in English literature (especially older). Its Latinzed form, which may also occasiona ...

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The most lasting monuments to the past glories of Versailles are not in France but in the other countries of continental Europe. When Louis XIV had Versailles constructed, France was the most powerful and the richest state on the continent. Versailles ignited a competitive spate of building palaces in fountain-filled gardens among the power elite of Europe, not all of them kings. In the small courts of Germany, echoes of Versailles sprang up, as ambitious as local funding permitted: at Bonn, Schloss Augustusburg, Brühl for the Archbi ...

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Palace of Versailles, Palace of Versailles - History, Palace of Versailles - The politics of display, Palace of Versailles - Cost, Palace of Versailles - Benefits, Palace of Versailles - Features, Palace of Versailles - The Hall of Mirrors, Palace of Versailles - War Uses, Palace of Versailles - Post-royal: the monument-museum, Palace of Versailles - The Would-Be Versailles

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In 1747 he was named painter to the royal court under the newly crowned King Frederik V, whose duties also included the supervision and restoration of paintings at the royal residences. After several years development he became fully employed by the court and paintings streamed out of his studio. In 1748 Pilo was named professor at the Drawing and Painting Academy (Tegne- og Malerakademiet), predecessor to the Royal Danish Academy of Art (Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi), along with Marcus Tuscher and Johann Friedrich ...

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Carl Gustaf Pilo, Carl Gustaf Pilo - Early years, Carl Gustaf Pilo - Career start in Skåne, Carl Gustaf Pilo - Continued career in Denmark, Carl Gustaf Pilo - Success at the Royal Court and Academy, Carl Gustaf Pilo - Downfall, Carl Gustaf Pilo - Return to Sweden

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The parts of Sweden, being rather large and hard to travel through, each have a distinguished culture. Historically this was noted through the Swedish provinces that once (around 1,000 years ago) constituted separate countries. For brevity, one can make a crude distinction into six areas. From north to south: Northern part: Norrland, number 1 and 2. This part was historically unexplored for centuries. For large parts wilderness dominates. The Scandinavian mountain range occupies its western part. Th ...

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Uppland was historically divided into chartered cities and districts. Within Roslagen they were called ship districts, and in the rest of the province hundreds. Uppland - Cities. Enköping (approximately 1300) Lidingö (1926) Norrtälje (1622) Sigtuna (approximately 990) Solna (1943) Stockholm (1252) Sundbyberg (1927) Uppsala (1286) Vaxholm (1652) Öregrund (1491) à ...

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Uppland, Uppland - Counties, Uppland - Population, Uppland - History, Uppland - Heraldry, Uppland - Dukes, Uppland - Geography, Uppland - Cities, Uppland - Districts, Uppland - Facts, Uppland - Culture

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The most lasting monuments to the past glories of Versailles are not in France but in the other countries of continental Europe. When Louis XIV had Versailles constructed, France was the most powerful and the richest state on the continent. Versailles ignited a competitive spate of building palaces in fountain-filled gardens among the power elite of Europe, not all of them kings. In the small courts of Germany, echoes of Versailles sprang up, as ambitious as local funding permitted: at Bonn, Schloss Augustusburg, Brühl for the Archbi ...

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Palace of Versailles, Palace of Versailles - The politics of display, Palace of Versailles - Cost, Palace of Versailles - Benefits, Palace of Versailles - Features, Palace of Versailles - The Hall of Mirrors, Palace of Versailles - War Uses, Palace of Versailles - Post-royal: the monument-museum, Palace of Versailles - The Would-Be Versailles

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He lived 1738-1741 in Skåne where he may have worked as a craft painter for two Skånsk noble families, the Lewenhaupt family and the Baron Malte Ramel family. Pastoral drawings of his from this time indicate that he may have painted decorations at some estate. He was reputed to be a competent portraitist, and is reported to have painted a large family picture for the widow Countess Lewenhaupt. He became betrothed to Eva Maria Malmgren of Hofterup (between Malmö and Landskrona), a churchwarden’s daughter, in 1738. During these yea ...

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Carl Gustaf Pilo, Carl Gustaf Pilo - Early years, Carl Gustaf Pilo - Career start in Skåne, Carl Gustaf Pilo - Continued career in Denmark, Carl Gustaf Pilo - Success at the Royal Court and Academy, Carl Gustaf Pilo - Downfall, Carl Gustaf Pilo - Return to Sweden

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He was born on the farm Göksäter in Runtuna Parish near Nyköping, Södermanland to painter Olof (Oluff) Pilo (Pijhlou) and Beata Jönsdotter Sahlstedt. Early information about his career contains many inconsistencies, on account of disagreements between two sources contemporary with his life. In spite of his father's protests Carl Gustav chose to be educated as a painter instead of receiving a book education. He probably received his early training from his father, who had earned his living as a young man as decorative painter at D ...

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Carl Gustaf Pilo, Carl Gustaf Pilo - Early years, Carl Gustaf Pilo - Career start in Skåne, Carl Gustaf Pilo - Continued career in Denmark, Carl Gustaf Pilo - Success at the Royal Court and Academy, Carl Gustaf Pilo - Downfall, Carl Gustaf Pilo - Return to Sweden

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Danish art was well served by the presence of foreign artists at the Academy until there was a reaction to foreigners in 1771-1772 after both the ouster of German Johann Friedrich Struensee from the Danish Royal Court, and Swedish King Gustav III's coup d'état which turned Danes against Sweden. On August 31, 1772 Pilo received the newly established Cross of the Knights of the Order of Vasa by a Swedish emissary of Gustav III, which required Pilo to take an oath of allegiance to Sweden, the land of his birth. This was considered unacceptable for someone in service to the King of Denmark, and the e ...

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Carl Gustaf Pilo, Carl Gustaf Pilo - Early years, Carl Gustaf Pilo - Career start in Skåne, Carl Gustaf Pilo - Continued career in Denmark, Carl Gustaf Pilo - Success at the Royal Court and Academy, Carl Gustaf Pilo - Downfall, Carl Gustaf Pilo - Return to Sweden

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At the Revolution the paintings and sculpture, like the crown jewels, were consigned to the new Musée du Louvre as part of the cultural patrimony of France. Other contents went to serve a new and moral public role: books and medals went to the Bibliothèque Nationale, clocks and scientific instruments (Louis XVI was a connoisseur of science) to the École des Arts et Métiers. Versailles was still the most richly-appointed royal palace of Europe, however, until a long series of auction sales on the premises unrolled for months during the Re ...

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Palace of Versailles, Palace of Versailles - The politics of display, Palace of Versailles - Cost, Palace of Versailles - Benefits, Palace of Versailles - Features, Palace of Versailles - The Hall of Mirrors, Palace of Versailles - War Uses, Palace of Versailles - Post-royal: the monument-museum, Palace of Versailles - The Would-Be Versailles

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After the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, the castle was the main headquarters of the German army from October 5, 1870 until March 13, 1871, and the German Empire was proclaimed here on January 18. The ravages of war and neglect over the centuries left their mark on the palace and its huge gardens. Modern French governments of the post World War II era have sought to repair these damages. They have on the whole been successful, but some of the more costly items, like the vast array of fountains, have yet to be put back compl ...

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Palace of Versailles, Palace of Versailles - The politics of display, Palace of Versailles - Cost, Palace of Versailles - Benefits, Palace of Versailles - Features, Palace of Versailles - The Hall of Mirrors, Palace of Versailles - War Uses, Palace of Versailles - Post-royal: the monument-museum, Palace of Versailles - The Would-Be Versailles

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After the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, the palace was the main headquarters of the German army from October 5, 1870 until March 13, 1871, and the German Empire was proclaimed here on January 18. The ravages of war and neglect over the centuries left their mark on the palace and its huge gardens. Modern French governments of the post World War II era have sought to repair these damages. They have on the whole been successful, but some of the more costly items, like the vast array of fountains, have yet to be put back compl ...

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Palace of Versailles, Palace of Versailles - The politics of display, Palace of Versailles - Cost, Palace of Versailles - Benefits, Palace of Versailles - Features, Palace of Versailles - The Hall of Mirrors, Palace of Versailles - War Uses, Palace of Versailles - Post-royal: the monument-museum, Palace of Versailles - The Would-Be Versailles

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Palace of Versailles - The Hall of Mirrors. The Hall of Mirrors (French: Galerie des Glaces) is a large room in the palace. It is generally considered one of the major attractions of the palace and is currently undergoing restoration. The galerie was started in 1678, at the time the château began to be the official residence of Louis XIV. It was completed in 1684. Many ...

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Palace of Versailles, Palace of Versailles - The politics of display, Palace of Versailles - Cost, Palace of Versailles - Benefits, Palace of Versailles - Features, Palace of Versailles - The Hall of Mirrors, Palace of Versailles - War Uses, Palace of Versailles - Post-royal: the monument-museum, Palace of Versailles - The Would-Be Versailles

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The magnificence of Versailles is so blatant that modern tourists are moved to inquire, "How much did it cost?"--a question they are never inspired to ask at Chartres. At Ulm, the townspeople built a cathedral so vast the entire population could stand inside it. The question asked at Versailles is not a genuine historical question, for its subtext, often spoken, is "Was it worth it?" The anachronistic assumption underlying this curiosity about the "cost" of Versailles is the perception that it is a greatly expanded house on a r ...

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Palace of Versailles, Palace of Versailles - The politics of display, Palace of Versailles - Cost, Palace of Versailles - Benefits, Palace of Versailles - Features, Palace of Versailles - The Hall of Mirrors, Palace of Versailles - War Uses, Palace of Versailles - Post-royal: the monument-museum, Palace of Versailles - The Would-Be Versailles

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While Versailles was grand and luxurious, it was also expensive to maintain. It has been estimated that maintaining Versailles, including the care and feeding of its staff and the royal family, consumed as much as 25% of the government income of France. However, this figure is disputed by historians who consider that it has been exaggerated by those who wish to overemphasise the role of royal extravagance in the causation of the French Revolution. Recent estimates would sugges ...

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Palace of Versailles, Palace of Versailles - The politics of display, Palace of Versailles - Cost, Palace of Versailles - Benefits, Palace of Versailles - Features, Palace of Versailles - The Hall of Mirrors, Palace of Versailles - War Uses, Palace of Versailles - Post-royal: the monument-museum, Palace of Versailles - The Would-Be Versailles

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In early 1741 when marriage to Malmgren began to loom, Pilo left Skåne and moved to Copenhagen, Denmark. There is some question as to whether he left his fiancée behind in Sweden in a childbearing state. In any case Pilo refused to marry her, and the engagement first became legally annulled on May 5, 1747. He brought with him to Denmark a letter of introduction from Charlotte Amélie Dorothée Desmarez, governess at the Ramel residence and his future wife, to her brother-in-law C.G. Almer, language teacher at the National Cadet Acad ...

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Carl Gustaf Pilo, Carl Gustaf Pilo - Early years, Carl Gustaf Pilo - Career start in Skåne, Carl Gustaf Pilo - Continued career in Denmark, Carl Gustaf Pilo - Success at the Royal Court and Academy, Carl Gustaf Pilo - Downfall, Carl Gustaf Pilo - Return to Sweden

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Provinces serve no administrative function in Sweden today. Instead, this is done by the Counties of Sweden län. Uppland is divided in three counties: Uppsala County, which occupies the heartland, the Stockholm County, which has claimed about a third of the territory in the south and the Västmanland County, taking a quarter in the west. Uppland - Population. The population of Uppland is 1,339,154 as of 2004. The provincial population corre ...

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Uppland, Uppland - Counties, Uppland - Population, Uppland - History, Uppland - Heraldry, Uppland - Dukes, Uppland - Geography, Uppland - Cities, Uppland - Districts, Uppland - Facts, Uppland - Culture

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Before the 13th century most buildings were made of wood. But a shift began towards stone. Early Swedish stone buildings are the Romanesque churches on the country side. As so happens, many of them were built in Scania and are in effect Danish churches. This would include the magnificent Lund Cathedral from the 11th century and the somewhat younger church in Dalby, but also many early Gothic churches built through influendes of the Hanseatic ...

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Culture of Sweden, Culture of Sweden - Regions, Culture of Sweden - The people, Culture of Sweden - Film, Culture of Sweden - Music, Culture of Sweden - Literature, Culture of Sweden - Architecture, Culture of Sweden - Arts

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