Pyramid på Gustav Adolfs torg

Abstract

English Summary The years around 1780 are significant ones in Scandinavian art history. At this time a number of architects travelled south to France and Italy, where they came into direct contact with international art development and its revival of Classical An tiquity. Among the Swedes were Eric Palmstedt (later on the master architect of Gustaf Ill's theatre in Gripsholm Castle) and Olof Tempelman (later active at Haga), and among the Danes, Nicolas Jardin's best pupil, Peter Meyn. In addition to these travellers, there was still another Swede, Carl August Ehrensvard. In 1780 he was thirty‐five years old, a colonel in the army's fleet and actually somewhat of a dilettante in the field of architecture. However, this Italian trip was to mean equally as much for him as for the professional architects. His writings on art theory, which he published later, “Italian Journey” and “Philosophy of Fine Arts” (both 1786) and the numerous drawings and projects, inspired by the Italian sojourn, indicate a very adv...