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The Royal Palace in Stockholm: Grand Swedish Architecture With Italian and French Flair

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The Royal Palace in Stockholm: Grand Swedish Architecture With Italian and French Flair
Royal Palace staff ready themselves for Nobel Prize dinner guests in King Karl XI’s Gallery in the State Apartments. Architect Nicodemus Tessin the Younger modeled the gallery on Versailles’s Hall of Mirrors, including the ceiling paintings featuring ancient gods and goddesses that glorify the king’s reign. Alexis Daflos/Kungl. Hovstaterna
Lorraine Ferrier
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Since the 13th century, Swedish monarchs have called the Royal Palace in Stockholm home.

Baroque architect Nicodemus Tessin the Younger designed the current 600-room, Roman-style palace after a fire destroyed the previous structure in 1697. When Tessin died, architect Carl Harleman completed the structure.

Lorraine Ferrier
Lorraine Ferrier
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Lorraine Ferrier writes about fine arts and craftsmanship for The Epoch Times. She focuses on artists and artisans, primarily in North America and Europe, who imbue their works with beauty and traditional values. She's especially interested in giving a voice to the rare and lesser-known arts and crafts, in the hope that we can preserve our traditional art heritage. She lives and writes in a London suburb, in England.
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