Abstract
Summary The old living room of King Erik XIV in Kalmar Castle, decorated in 1562, was restored in the years 1855–1862 by the architect F. W. Scholander. During this restoration many parts of the marquetry of the walls were replaced by altered copies. In order to glorify King Erik new views of old well‐known castles were substituted for fine landscape views. Paintings in the plane spaces in the middle of the jewel‐ornaments were painted over; they might have been impossible to restore. Still, the largest one was one of the very few Swedish landscapes of the Renaissance. From the point of view of the restorer, who wanted to create an historic illusion, the restoration of the jewelornaments of the windows and the ceiling seems to have been more successfull than that of the marquetry and the relief with hunting scenes.
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