Kristoffer Neville is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Nicodemus Tessin the Elder: Architecture in Sweden in the Age of Greatness and coeditor of Queen Hedwig Eleonora and the Arts: Court Culture in Seventeenth-Century Northern Europe.

“Kristoffer Neville has given early modern scholars a gift. He has presented a major, if often invisible, core of northern Central Europe, Scandinavia, as a coherent and productive cultural center. This book offers history of the richest kind: political, religious, and visual culture. Neville deftly introduces us to unfamiliar castles and palaces, churches, and tombs as well as peripatetic Northern artists. All can now take their rightful place in early modern European art and architectural history, thanks to this revelatory volume.”—Larry Silver, author of Peasant Scenes and Landscapes

• List of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Gothicism in Germania2. Reform and Reformation3. Frederik II and the Arts in Denmark in the Later Sixteenth Century4. Christian IV5. Minerva’s World6. Two Queens7. AbsolutismEpilogue: The Romantic NorthNotesBibliographyIndex

Kristoffer Neville is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Nicodemus Tessin the Elder: Architecture in Sweden in the Age of Greatness and coeditor of Queen Hedwig Eleonora and the Arts: Court Culture in Seventeenth-Century Northern Europe.

“Kristoffer Neville has given early modern scholars a gift. He has presented a major, if often invisible, core of northern Central Europe, Scandinavia, as a coherent and productive cultural center. This book offers history of the richest kind: political, religious, and visual culture. Neville deftly introduces us to unfamiliar castles and palaces, churches, and tombs as well as peripatetic Northern artists. All can now take their rightful place in early modern European art and architectural history, thanks to this revelatory volume.”—Larry Silver, author of Peasant Scenes and Landscapes

• List of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Gothicism in Germania2. Reform and Reformation3. Frederik II and the Arts in Denmark in the Later Sixteenth Century4. Christian IV5. Minerva’s World6. Two Queens7. AbsolutismEpilogue: The Romantic NorthNotesBibliographyIndex

Kristoffer Neville is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Nicodemus Tessin the Elder: Architecture in Sweden in the Age of Greatness and coeditor of Queen Hedwig Eleonora and the Arts: Court Culture in Seventeenth-Century Northern Europe.

“Kristoffer Neville has given early modern scholars a gift. He has presented a major, if often invisible, core of northern Central Europe, Scandinavia, as a coherent and productive cultural center. This book offers history of the richest kind: political, religious, and visual culture. Neville deftly introduces us to unfamiliar castles and palaces, churches, and tombs as well as peripatetic Northern artists. All can now take their rightful place in early modern European art and architectural history, thanks to this revelatory volume.”—Larry Silver, author of Peasant Scenes and Landscapes

• List of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Gothicism in Germania2. Reform and Reformation3. Frederik II and the Arts in Denmark in the Later Sixteenth Century4. Christian IV5. Minerva’s World6. Two Queens7. AbsolutismEpilogue: The Romantic NorthNotesBibliographyIndex