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| | artnet.com: Resource Library: Damer, Henrik (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30) |
 | | By 1629 he was in Strängnäs, Södermanland, working on the monument (marble and sandstone, completed 1633; in situ) to the half-brother of Gustav II Adolf, King of Sweden (reg 161132), Carl Carlsson Gyllenhielm (15741650), in his mortuary chapel in Strängnäs Cathedral. |
 | | The monument is rather stylized and solemnly expressive and consists of a tomb surmounted by a baldacchino carried by six Ionic columns; within it are the kneeling figures of Gyllenhielm and his wife, and smaller allegorical and biblical figures and heraldic shields adorn the walls and the baldacchino. |
 | | To Damer is attributed the tower-like mortuary chapel (completed 1639) of Herman Wrangel (15871643) at Skokloster Church, Uppland, an octagonal structure evidently influenced by Gustav II Adolfs memorial chapel (16323) at Riddarholm Church in Stockholm. |
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