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up a view of a rich national treasure of mediaval art. But a
systematic printed inventory is certainly still missing.
For the Baltic states there are special studies by the Swedes
H. Kjellin (particularly Die Kirche zu Karris auf Óesel und ihre
Beziehungen zu Gotland, 1928) and S. Karling (amongst others
Gotland och Estlands medeltida byggnadskonst, Riga 1939), and
A. Tuulse of Dorpat (e. g. Die Kirche zu Karja und die Wehr-
kirchen Saaremaas, 1940. Die Burgen in Estland und Lettland,
T942)- .
The southern coast of the Baltic is treated in the German
Inventory works and in special investigations by Adolph Gold-
schmidt and others.
The many book titles may mislead the reader as if it were
here the questión of a Nordic or at least a Swedish art biblio-
graphy 1905—1945. Of course, far from that. The great interest
in Swedish ecclesiastical monuments never excluded researches
on profane monuments and in foreign countries. Different Swe-
dish expeditions worked on classical ground and published their
discoveries. Osvald Sirén, exempli gratia, worked at Italian and
at Chinese art. The endeavour of this article was properly and
only to tell of the start and the going on of Swedish studies in
ecclesiastical medieval art. It is however reasonable to add a
word about the history of secular art, profane art in our country.
The study hereof went on parallel to the interest in ecclesiastical
art. Centre of the profane studies is the National Museum (direc-
tor Erik Wettergren). Centre of the ecclesiastical studies is the
Historical Museum and of both sorts of researches the universities:
Uppsala (Gregor Paulsson), Lund (Ragnar Josephson), Göteborg
(Axel Romdahl), Stockholm (Henrik Cornell and Johnny Roos-
val). The principal periodicals open to the art historian of our
country are:
Nationalmusei Ársbok (a yearbook, principally art from 1500—
our days).
Konsthistorisk Tidskrift, Stockholm (4 numbers yearly, History
of art, including Greek, Roman and Oriental).
Tidskrift för Konstvetenskap, Lund (published as a yearbook,
History of Art).
Fornvánnen (6 numbers yearly, Nordic archaeology and medie-
val art).
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