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dc.contributor.authorSiukonen, Jyrki
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-23T15:45:42Z
dc.date.available2023-05-23T15:45:42Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifierONIX_20230523_9789518586190_16
dc.identifier.issn0562-6129
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63097
dc.languageFinnish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesTietolipas
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of arten_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Artsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural historyen_US
dc.subject.otherthe 19th century
dc.subject.otherNeoclassicism
dc.subject.otherfine arts
dc.subject.othersculpture
dc.subject.otherstatues
dc.subject.othersculptures
dc.titleEnsimmäinen
dc.title.alternativeCarl Eneas Sjöstrandin istuva Porthan
dc.typebook
oapen.abstract.otherlanguageThe nineteenth century has been called an age of monuments. In some places even one piece made a difference. This book is a study of the intellectual background and physical making of Finland’s first public sculpture, the statue of Professor Henrik Gabriel Porthan by Carl Eneas Sjöstrand. The idealised but sombre Porthan was born under the influence of German neoclassicism. Development on the project was slow but sure. The Swedish artist had to be supported over three years while he was putting together his first monumental piece in Munich and Rome, after which came another three years wait before the cast arrived to Finland. The bronze sculpture, commissioned by the Finnish Literary Society and raised by public subscriptions from people of all classes, was unveiled in the city of Turku in September 1864. Finns took some pride in the fact that, unlike other nations that had raised monuments to kings and generals, here the first place was given to a scholar. In this study Sjöstrand’s pioneering bronze is placed in a wider context and compared with works by his precursors and contemporaries in the international sculptor colony of Rome.
oapen.identifier.doi10.21435/tl.281
oapen.relation.isPublishedByFinnish Literature Society / SKS
oapen.relation.isbn9789518586190
oapen.relation.isbn9789518586213
oapen.relation.isbn9789518586206
oapen.imprintFinnish Literature Society
oapen.series.number16
oapen.pages211
oapen.place.publicationHelsinki


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