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Material worlds : queen Hedwig Eleonora as collector and patron of the arts

Av Lisa Skogh

Material worlds explores the patronage and collecting of Queen Hedwig

Eleonora of Sweden (1636–1715). The book principally focuses on three of her areas of

interest, grouped as metaphorical material worlds: pictures, wonders and knowledge.

It looks at Hedwig Eleonora’s patronage of portraitists, miniaturists, ivory sculptors, hardstone

carvers, jewellers and goldsmiths, as well as ideas on natural resources, rarities and scholarship,

which all were of great significance to the visual display and political culture created around the

Swedish royal court. Furthermore, the study of her collections brings to light the influence of her

international connections, including agents of exclusive commodities and scholars, as well as the

great importance of her continental family network, the most notable are the courts at Gottorf

and Dresden, whose patronage patterns are mirrored in the symbolic environments created by

Hedwig Eleonora.

This book contributes to the body of scholarship on early modern patronage and collecting by

looking at how Hedwig Eleonora through these material worlds established a significant arena

of cultural and political power, which was to last more than half a century, and although acting

in Sweden, it mirrored very much the taste and activities of the continent.

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