DOI Heft:
Nr. 198 (August 1913)
DOI Artikel:Bröchner, Georg: The château of Rosenborg, Copenhagen, and its collections
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43453#0144
The Chateau of Rosenborg, Copenhagen
THE MARBLE HALL
in this historic hall (which also at times has served
as a chapel), but the queen, Struensee, and Brandt
were then prisoners, the two men awaiting their
doom; they were both beheaded on April 28
on the commons outside the city, the king’s marriage
with his frail and beautiful queen having already
been dissolved. A striking bronze bust of Christian
IV, understood to be the work of a French artist,
ornaments a corner of the Audience Chamber.
A door in the south wall leads to a room known
as the Queen’s Lacquered Apartment or the Study of
Christian IV. The panels of the oak walls are
still decorated with Japanese paintings probably
brought to Denmark, with some Chinese porcelain
figures placed over the doors, by a Danish nobleman
who visited the Far East. The ceiling is orna-
mented with stucco and paintings, and the room
contains Christian IV’s writing-table with several
personal requisites of the king, besides other pieces
of furniture and numerous pictures, weapons, minia-
tures, and other objects closely associated with
him. In fact all the rooms at Rosenborg abound
in articles of virtu, many of which would make the
most fastidious collector covetous.
I must pass by a couple of smaller apartments,
perfect in their appointments of the period, with
handsome stucco ceilings—the one in the Garden
Apartment being decorated with a painting by
Benedict Coiffre representing a bacchanal—woven
tapestries, and marble fireplaces.
A door from the other of these rooms, the Dark
Apartment, leads to the Marble Hall, remarkable for
the elaborateness of its decoration and a full-blown
flower of the sumptuous baroque period, the ceiling
more especially. Its stucco is singularly bold and
powerful, female figures and genii alternating with
elaborate baroque ornaments; in the centre are
two paintings, the Crown Regalia supported by genii.
Corinthian pilasters support the ceiling, the walls
and the pilasters being of marble stucco and the
floor covered with marble slabs. The room in its
present style dates from the period of Christian V,
whose monogram and that of his queen embellish
the doors, as do the coats-of-arms of the Scandi-
iir
THE MARBLE HALL
in this historic hall (which also at times has served
as a chapel), but the queen, Struensee, and Brandt
were then prisoners, the two men awaiting their
doom; they were both beheaded on April 28
on the commons outside the city, the king’s marriage
with his frail and beautiful queen having already
been dissolved. A striking bronze bust of Christian
IV, understood to be the work of a French artist,
ornaments a corner of the Audience Chamber.
A door in the south wall leads to a room known
as the Queen’s Lacquered Apartment or the Study of
Christian IV. The panels of the oak walls are
still decorated with Japanese paintings probably
brought to Denmark, with some Chinese porcelain
figures placed over the doors, by a Danish nobleman
who visited the Far East. The ceiling is orna-
mented with stucco and paintings, and the room
contains Christian IV’s writing-table with several
personal requisites of the king, besides other pieces
of furniture and numerous pictures, weapons, minia-
tures, and other objects closely associated with
him. In fact all the rooms at Rosenborg abound
in articles of virtu, many of which would make the
most fastidious collector covetous.
I must pass by a couple of smaller apartments,
perfect in their appointments of the period, with
handsome stucco ceilings—the one in the Garden
Apartment being decorated with a painting by
Benedict Coiffre representing a bacchanal—woven
tapestries, and marble fireplaces.
A door from the other of these rooms, the Dark
Apartment, leads to the Marble Hall, remarkable for
the elaborateness of its decoration and a full-blown
flower of the sumptuous baroque period, the ceiling
more especially. Its stucco is singularly bold and
powerful, female figures and genii alternating with
elaborate baroque ornaments; in the centre are
two paintings, the Crown Regalia supported by genii.
Corinthian pilasters support the ceiling, the walls
and the pilasters being of marble stucco and the
floor covered with marble slabs. The room in its
present style dates from the period of Christian V,
whose monogram and that of his queen embellish
the doors, as do the coats-of-arms of the Scandi-
iir