Beskrivning
- BRITA CHRISTINA BONDE, JOHAN RUNIUS AND THE TÅDENE PANELS
Nr 108. Simon Mc Keown (2021). ISBN 978-9186681-53-1
The church of Tådene, near Lidköping, is home to a remarkable s
eries of decorated panels that date from the end of Sweden’s
Great Power era. Painted in the Baroque style, these panels consist
of emblems, a fashionable artistic and literary form that employed
ingenious symbolism to convey messages and morals in a way
that was both entertaining and instructive. This book presents for
the first time Tådene’s complete set of emblem panels, including
many that have been lost since the 1870s. It also tells the story
of how the series was commissioned under the direction of the
powerful patroness of Tådene, Baroness Brita Christina Bonde,
and how through her creation of an artistic milieu at her estate
at Storeberg, she was able to engage the services of the painter
Edvard Orm, and those of the rising star of the Swedish literary
Baroque, the poet Johan Runius.
