The Architecture of the Renaissance in Sweden 
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BELL TOWER AT HALLESTAD 
BELL TOWER AT HASJO 
one axis, reminds one instantly of Roman 
plans; and in its way, it is as fine as any¬ 
thing in Letarouilly. The motifs for the 
work seem to have been taken from the Villa 
Colonna or the Palazzo Spada. Standing 
within The Garden of the Tessin Palace one 
looks over a screen wall, across a courtyard 
and sees the high building terminating the 
main axis, a building which in spite of its 
extremely slight depth, seems on account of 
its colonnade, ingeniously constructed in per¬ 
spective, to run back tor many yards. 1 he 
whole palace is one of the finest examples of 
the style of the High Renaissance in the 
manner of Vignola to be found outside ot 
Rome. 
A couple of wooden bell towers and the 
single street scene shown in the book make 
one wish for more ot such unpretending 
work. Indeed the chief thing to be regretted 
about the book is that in almost completely 
avoiding minor structures the note ot the 
country, the national manner of building, is 
not brought out and that thus one comes 
away from its perusal with the idea that after 
all the architecture of Sweden is essentially 
the same as that of northern Germany, an 
idea that no one could gain had Sweden’s 
minor domestic architecture been adequately 
represented. The book, however, produces 
an impression ol scholarly care in prepara¬ 
tion. Essays on the period, its personages 
and its artists precede the detailed description 
of each building, a description accompanied 
by an outline of the history of each structure 
and by some statement of its relation to other 
buildings of its period and neighborhood. 
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