This autumn, Nationalmuseum presents the magnificent exhibition Staging Power – Napoleon, Karl Johan, Alexander. On show will be some 420 items - a collection of portraits, costumes, jewellery and other art wares – all telling a story of honour and power. The exhibition is about the art of governing through art.
Nationalmuseum’s summer exhibition At Home – Scandinavian Interiors opened on 16 June. The exhibition shows how the home has been portrayed by some of Scandinavia’s best-loved artists during the 18th and 19th centuries. It is a series of seldom-seen works from the museums own collection.
Flemish Paintings c. 1600 – c. 1800 is the third and final volume in a series of catalogues raisonnés dealing with Dutch and Flemish paintings in the Nationalmuseum. This volume covers famous painters like Anthonis van Dyck, Peter Paul Rubens, Jan Brueghel I, Jacob Jordaens, Frans Snyders and Jan Fyt, but also less known artists.
This summer’s exhibition, At Home – Scandinavian Interiors, focuses on the home as a motif. Presenting works primarily from Nationalmuseum’s own collections, it will show some of the ways the home has been depicted in art, and how interior design trends have evolved. The exhibition opens on 16 June and runs until 15 August.
As part of Sweden’s Bernadotte Year, Nationalmuseum is presenting an exhibition of black-and-white portraits of the House of Bernadotte, The Bernadottes in Black and White. This autumn, Nationalmuseum joins forces with the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, to present a magnificent exhibition on the art of governing through art, Staging Power – Napoleon, Karl Johan, Alexander.
