Debatten 1915–1976 om Uppsala Domkyrkas restaurering, II

Abstract

Summary and conclusion The above is the second part of a report on the debate on the restoration of Uppsala cathedral (the first part was published in Konsthistorisk tidskrift 1976, pp. 115–144). The report has its origins in a course given at the University of Stockholm in 1974 under the auspices of the the institute of the History of Art. During the last fifty years, a large number of early Swedish churches has been restored. The main purpose of this work was often to remove 19th century additions, which aimed at the restoration of the building in a uniform style, and to provide instead a design supposedly more historically accurate or, according to the restorers at least, aesthetically more pleasing. Restoration of this type was usually carried out without protest or discussion, being regarded as the concern of a small group of experts centred in and around the appropriate state authority, the Swedish Central Office of National Antiquities (the central authority for the preservation of cultural monumen...