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of the wooden sculpture of the island preserved in the Museum
of Visby, Gotlands Fornsal, is discussed and reproduced in
J. Roosval, Medeltida sknlptur i Gotlands jornsal, Stockholm
J925-
A treatment of the rests of medieval jeweller’s art is being
published by Carl F. af Ugglas in Bidrag till den medeltida guld-
smedskonstens historia, of which Part I appeared in 1941.
Roosval is preparing Stained Glass of Medieval Gothland in
coloured reproductions and Flemish Retables in Swedish Churches.
Now, in spite of the manifold works, printed or prepared
about our ecclesiastical treasures of art, we shall never get a
survey of the nature of early life of art if the other Scandinavian
countries and all the coasts of the Baltic are not drawn into the
field of vision. In the flourishing epochs of ecclesiastical art —
in the Middle Ages — they all belong together. Even though
German art at the same time is attached to interior Germany,
and even though Norway is intimately connected with England,
there is between the politically separated parts of Scandinavia a
cultural connexion. In modern times it is on certain points broken
— on which points should not be discussed here.
Thus we should to the inventories of material enumerated
above add the following. For Denmark: the rapidly progressing
inventory of ecclesiastical art Danmarks Kirker published by
the National Museum, started in 1933 by M. Mackeprang and
now continued by Poul Norlund. The treatments of the counties
of Præsto, Soro, and Thisted have been published, that of the
county of Copenhagen is in progress.
For Finland a similar work of inventory published by
Finska Fornminnesföreningen was started by K. K. Meinander
and Juhani Rinne in 1912 (Nykyrko and Nystad) and 1930
(Letala). Amos Anderson in 1911 published Medeltida kyrkokonst
i Finland, an album of excellent colour plates, etc., and texts of
church architecture and mural painting. Meinander in 1908
printed his account of Medeltida altarskap och trásniderier i
Finlands kyrkor. These and other special works to some degree
make up for the want of an Inventory work.
For Norway the large number of works by Flarry Fett,
the King’s Custodian of antiquities in Norway (e. g. Norges
kirker, 1909—11, Norges malerkunst i middelalderen, 1917, Bil-
ledhuggerkunsten i Norge under Sverreœtten, 1908) has opened