House & Garden 
T he archi t e c t u re of 
THE RENAISSANCE IN SWE¬ 
DEN BY DR. GUSTAF UP- 
MARK.* 
The progress of the Renaissance in archi¬ 
tecture, from its source in Italy to the coun¬ 
tries beyond the Alps, is a subject full of 
fascination for many minds. The forces— 
political, religious or intellectual—that here 
facilitated or there retarded the movement, 
offer a fair field for study by the historian of 
* Die Areliitektur der Renaissance in Schweden, 1530-1760, 
lier.tusgegeben von Dr. Gustaf Upmark. 13" x 17" ; x, 132 
pp. ; 132 ils., 100 pi. Dresden, Gerhard Kiihtmann ; New 
York, Paul Wenzel. Price, $36. 
art in each of the countries of Europe ; for it 
was to each of them that the wave of archi¬ 
tectural thought originating in Italy ultimate¬ 
ly reached. Of some of the more remote, 
however, one rarely thinks in this connection, 
and certainly the idea of the existence of ren- 
naissance structures in Sweden, of sufficient 
importance to justify the publication of a 
sumptuous folio, concerned with them from 
an architectural rather than an archaeological 
point of view, will be a surprise to many. 
But to one who remembers the large part 
played in the affairs of Northern Europe by 
Sweden during the period of the Reformation, 
to one who bears in mind the almost constant 
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