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	Nicodemus Tessin the Younger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Count Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (May 23, 1654- April 10, 1728) was a Swedish architect.
		He studied with his father, Nicodemus Tessin the Elder, who was an important Swedish baroque architect.
		Nicodemus the Younger is the father of Carl Gustaf Tessin, one of the most influential Swedish politicians of his time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nicodemus_Tessin_the_Younger (177 words)

	HNA Review of Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Nicodemus Tessin the Younger was undoubtedly the most famous, and in the present book his work is examined on the basis of new research and from varied viewpoints.
		Tessin paid particular attention to the interior of palaces, to the typical furniture for various seasons, the use of ‘guarderobes’ and the existence of bedchambers and beds of state.
		Tessin’s task was to unite Rome’s ecclesiastical architecture with Lutheran orthodoxy, Swedish traditions and the demands of the monarchy.
	www.hnanews.org /archive/2003/Snickare.html (1831 words)

	Tessin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ticino River, a river in this canton and in Italy.
		Tessin, Germany, a town in the district of Bad Doberan in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
		Amt Tessin, a union of communes in the district of Bad Doberan in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tessin (157 words)

	Välkommen till N A T I O N A L M U S E U M
		Tessin the Younger wanted the building to be erected as a visual focus beyond the long canal in the park of the royal palace of Versailles outside Paris.
		Tessin mentioned the project for the first time in a letter written in 1712 to the Swedish envoy Daniel Cronström who resided in Paris.
		When Tessin the Younger's son Carl Gustaf went to Paris in 1714, Tessin entrusted the proposal to him in the hope that his son would be granted an audience with the French king and would then be able to present the splendid design for a ”Grand pavillon d’Apollon”.
	www.nationalmuseum.se /NMTemplates/NMSingle____3481.aspx (275 words)

	ArchitectureWeek - Culture - From Vernacular to Modern in Sweden - 2003.0604
		Nicodemus Tessin the Younger was trained as an architect by his baroque virtuoso father.
		Continuing his father's philosophy, Tessin the Younger's life and art were dedicated to the glorification of Sweden, which became synonymous with the warrior iconization of King Charles XII.
		When Stockholm Castle burned to the ground, Tessin the Younger got a rare chance to form the worldly home of an idealized hero.
	www.architectureweek.com /2003/0604/culture_2-2.html (952 words)

	Carl Gustaf, Count Tessin
		Swedish statesman, son of the great architect, Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, began his public career in 1723, at which time he was a member of the Holstein faction.
		In 1744 he was sent at the head of an extraordinary embassade to Berlin to escort to Stockholm Frederick the Great's sister, Louisa Ulrica, the chosen bride of the Swedish crown-prince, Adolphus Frederick.
		Tessin's Dagbok (Stockholm, 1824), both of them extracts from his voluminous manuscript memoirs in 29 volumes; and his famous En gammal mans bref til en ung Prins (Stockholm, 1753; English editions, 1755-56), addressed to his pupil, afterwards Gustavus III, one of the most delightful books for the young that ever saw the light.
	www.nndb.com /people/099/000098802 (607 words)

	The Royal Forums - View Single Post - Palaces, Castles, Royal Residences
		After the fire, the architect Nikodemus Tessin the Elder was commissioned by the Queen Dowager to design a new building, and in 1662 work began on the Palace, as we know it today.
		Nicodemus Tessin the Elder created a number of interiors, which rank among the foremost in Sweden from the early Baroque of the 1660s and 1670s.
		Following the death of Tessin the Elder in 1682, his son Nicodemus Tessin the Younger carried on and completed the great project.
	www.theroyalforums.com /forums/555-post1.html (450 words)

	Karlskrona Världsarv
		The public buildings in the town were designed by Erik Dahlberg (1625-1703) and Nicodemus Tessin the elder (1615–81), and also his son, Nicodemus Tessin the younger (1654–1728).
		This cruciform building designed in the 1690’s resembles a Roman basilica and was the largest of the churches built by Tessin the younger.
		The rotunda, inspired by Italian architecture, became known as the German church and was built by Nicodemus Tessin the younger.
	www.navalcity.org /htmlsidor/kyrkor_eng.htm (422 words)

	The Royal Domain of Drottningholm - National Heritage Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Work began at the end of the seventeenth century under the architect Nicodemus Tessin the Elder and was completed by Nicodemus Tessin the Younger.
		The interior was decorated between 1665 and 1703, at first in a heavy, sumptuous baroque style, but later increasingly refined to French patterns.
		Nicodemus Tessin the Younger also laid out the strict baroque garden according to the French model.
	www.raa.se /varveng/drotte.asp (475 words)

	Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines \| Excursion \| Stockholm, Sweden \| DROTTNINGHOLM PALACE & GARDENS
		It is situated on an island in a small inlet of Lake Mälaren, approximately an hour’s drive west of Stockholm, and has been the residence of the Royal Family since 1981.
		The construction of Drottningholm Palace was inaugurated in 1662 to the design of Nicodemus Tessin the Elder.
		Upon his death in 1681, the project was completed by his son Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, who also designed the French-inspired Baroque Garden.
	www.fredolsencruises.co.uk /fredolsen/process/shoretours/shoretour_detail/id=901,portcode_id=495.html (217 words)

	Karlskrona : Attractions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		If something looks unfinished, it is. Tessin planned for the church to have spires on its squat towers.
		A series of Ionic pilasters grace the interior, and the three dozen bells in the south tower are rung daily, the "music" resounding throughout the historic core.
		The church was completed in 1750, and Tessin based his design on the Pantheon in Rome.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/print-narrative.cfm?destID=3239&catID=3239010029 (1299 words)

	Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte - Vortrag Martin Olin, 03.05.2006
		The three generations of the Tessin dynasty dominated Swedish architecture and patronage in the period ca 1660–1750.
		The son of the King’s architect Nicodemus Tessin the Elder, Nicodemus the Younger designed a new palace for Stockholm and rose to the highest positions of the realm.
		As Swedish Ambassador to France, Carl Gustaf Tessin amassed one of Europe’s most important collections of contemporary painting and master drawings, now forming the nucleus of the holdings of the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm.
	www.zikg.lrz-muenchen.de /main/vortrag/20060503.htm (189 words)

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		An international research project aiming at a systematic review and publication of the architect Nicodemus Tessin The Younger's (1654-1728) manuscripts and collections.
		The research results of the Tessin project were presented at an international symposium, September 19-22 2002, and in an exhibition at the Nationalmuseum, September 20 2002 – January 6, 2003.
		The architects Nicodemus Tessin the younger and Carl Hårleman, 1896, Carl Larsson’s fresco at Nationalmuseum, detail.
	www.nationalmuseum.se /NMTemplates/NMSingle____2568.aspx (106 words)

	Tessin: Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, Royal Architect and Visionary Scandinavian Review - Find Articles
		Tessin: Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, Royal Architect and Visionary
		No architect has played as important a role in Swedish history as Nicodemus Tessin the Younger (1654-- 1728).
		In addition to the Royal Palace in Stockholm, his tour de force, Tessin designed palaces, churches and gardens for princes and nobles in Sweden and abroad.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3760/is_200304/ai_n9211115 (181 words)

	Stockholm hotels from $48: Sightseeing in Stockholm.
		Nicodemus Tessin the younger and Carl Hårleman were the architects.
		TESSIN PALACE, Slottsbacken 6 According to some people this house is the most beautiful private building north of Paris.
		In 1697 the Swedish architect Nicodemus Tessin the younger built the house to himself at the period he was building the Royal palace.
	www.destination-stockholm.com /citywalks.htm (2050 words)

	Burchardt Precht (Getty Museum) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		German-born Burchardt Precht traveled to Sweden in 1674 when he was about twenty-three years old to work with the Swedish architect Nicodemus Tessin the Younger.
		Precht worked with Tessin, who had spent some time at the court of Louis XIV, to create designs for furniture, altarpieces, pulpits, and crucifixes, bringing the newly fashionable Baroque style to Sweden.
		Both Tessin and Precht were influenced by the engraved designs of Daniel Marot and Jean Bérain.
	www.getty.edu /art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=7331 (81 words)

	Stockholm Features \| Fodor's Online Travel Guide
		Designed by Nicodemus Tessin the Younger and built between 1690 and 1704, it's a rather austere palace -- no domes, no great towers -- and yet it commands a certain respect sitting so regally over the water.
		Nearby, on Riddarholmen, observe the gorgeous, medieval Riddarholmskyrkan (Riddarholm Church), with its lattice spire pointed toward the heavens.
		And let's not forget Drottningholms Slott, just west of the city, a 17th-century châteauesque structure -- designed by Tessin the Elder and finished by his son -- that has been the home of the royal family since 1981.
	www.fodors.com /miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=stockholm@152&cur_section=fea&feature=30004 (470 words)

	slottet
		The Palace is situated in the Old Town, Stockholm´s original city nucleus, and is built on the remains of its predecessor, Tre Kronor, which was destroyed by fire in 1697.
		The new palace was designed by the architect Nicodemus Tessin the Younger and is one the most remarkable Baroque buildings of northern Europe.
		It was finally completed in 1754 and was first occupied by King Adolf Fredrik and his wife Lovisa Ulrika.
	hem.tu.orebro.se /datautbildning/elevarbeten/not2c_0203/stockholm/kunglslottet.htm (256 words)

	Historical Information
		Unfortunately, a fire on May 7, 1697 destroyed the palace.
		Nicodemus Tessin the Younger redesigned the castle, keeping the castle remains intact.
		It was designed with a five year plan, but it took nearly sixty years.
	www.op97.k12.il.us /julian/tribrocks/rocks/121/historical.html (381 words)

	hot news - Feb. 8: Lecture by SU Distinguished Professor of Architecture Patricia Waddy
		She is author of Seventeenth-Century Roman Palaces: Use and the Art of the Plan (1990, recipient of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award of the Society of Architectural Historians).
		A member of the international Nicodemus Tessin the Younger Research Group, she edited the treatise on the interiors of European palaces and aristocratic houses that Tessin drafted in 1717, Traictè dela decoration interieure, published in 2002 by Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
		This event is part of The History of the Book Seminar Series at Syracuse University, sponsored by the University Library; the Dean’s Office, College of Arts and Sciences; the Departments of Anthropology, English, History, Philosophy, and Religion, and of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics; and the School of Information Studies.
	www.syr.edu /news/2005-02-03_6801.html (246 words)

	Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines \| Excursion \| Karlskrona, Sweden \| WORLD HERITAGE BY THE SEA
		On this tour we shall see the expansive Stortorget (main square), surrounded by the neo-Classical Town Hall, the Baroque Frederiks Church, and the round Trinity Church, built for the area’s German community.
		These churches were both designed by Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, who also designed the royal palace in Stockholm.
		Nearby is Admiralty Church; built in 1685, it is the largest timber church in Sweden.
	www.fredolsencruises.co.uk /fredolsen/process/shoretours/shoretour_detail/id=895,portcode_id=387.html (325 words)

	HighBeam Research: Library Search: Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Swedish architect, the son of Tessin the Elder.
		In 1646, during the reign of Queen Christina (1644–54), Tessin was appointed Royal Architect, travelled to improve...
		Christina of Sweden (1632–54) in Stockholm, and trained his son Jean de la Vallée (1620–96) and Nicodemus Tessin the Elder, both of whom were to exercise considerable influence on the development of Baroque architecture in Sweden.
	www.highbeam.com /library/search.asp?FN=AO&search_dictionaries=on&refid=ency_refd&q=Tessin (563 words)

	Lonely Planet's Guide to Stockholm
		The walls of the north wing of the castle survived and were incorporated in the new palace, but the medieval designs are now concealed by a baroque exterior.
		The new palace, which has 608 rooms, was designed by the court architect Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, and wasn't completed until 57 years after the fire.
		The Changing of the Guard usually takes place in the outer courtyard at 12:10pm daily from June to August (but at 1:10pm on Sunday and public holidays).
	aolsvc.travel.aol.com /travel/lonely_planet/europe/stockholm/attractions.html (491 words)

	The Royal Palace of Stockholm
		Work did not actually begin, however, until 1692, under the direction of the Palace Architect Nicodemus Tessin the Younger.
		A disastrous fire on May 7, 1697 destroyed practically all of the old Palace, but the newly altered north wing was left more or less unscathed.
		Three weeks after the fire, Tessin submitted drawings for the new Palace to the Swedish government.
	www.fortunecity.com /victorian/dadd/1258/Stockslott.html (874 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Royal Mews was previously located at Helgeandsholmen, where the Swedish parliamentary buildings are situated today.
		Palace architect Nicodemus Tessin the Younger built them there in 1697.
		Some 200 years later they were demolished to make way for the Riksdag building.
	www.royalcourt.se /theroyalpalaces/theroyalmews/fliksidor/history.4.19fe5e61065eb9aeea80006661.html.printable (189 words)

	index
		At the end of the seventeenth century Nicodemus Tessin The Younger, Superintendent of Buildings for the Swedish court, had Daniel Cronström, a Swedish diplomat in Paris, send theatre drawings and stage models to Stockholm.
		Volume Two of a diary of the travels of Nicodemus Tessin The Younger in 1687-88 includes descriptions and sketches of the machinery he saw in Venice.
		The pertinent text and sketches have been published in "Unveröffentliches von Nicodemus Tessin d.J. Reisenotizen über Barock-Theater in Venedig und Piazzola, herausgegeben und kommentiert von Per Bjurström" in Kleine Schriften der Gesellschaft für Theatergeschichte [in German].
	www.acs.appstate.edu /orgs/spectacle/Pages/Sources.html (1807 words)

	The Orangery Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		During the “Great Power" era in Sweden citrus fruit was expensive and exclusive and embellished the Royal Court's banquets.
		The present Orangery was built at the end of the 1600s by Nicodemus Tessin the Younger by commission of Queen Dowager Hedvig Eleonora.
		Despite a number of later changes, Tessin's architecture still dominates the Orangery.
	www.royalcourt.se /theroyalpalaces/ulriksdalpalace/theorangerymuseum.4.19fe5e61065eb9aeea80005038.html.printable (192 words)

	Tessin - Carl Gustaf, Count Tessin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Our small and modern Minotel Minusio is situated at the entry of Locarno in a residencial and sunny area.
		NICODEMUS TESSIN the Younger: Sources, Works, Collections: Catalogue des livres, estampes and desseins du cabinet des beaux arts, and des sciences appartenant
		Swedish statesman, son of the great architect, Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, In 1743 Tessin composed the long outstanding differences between Sweden and
	findersky.com /fnes/tessin.htm (212 words)

	Karlskrona
		The buildings that were built at the foundation of Karlskrona in the 17th and early 18th century are still standing.
		The foundation of that church were laid in 1720, and it was inaugurated in 1744.
		It is likewise located at the market square in the centre core.
	www.governpub.com /Capitals-K/Karlskrona.php (485 words)

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