Open AccessImagining national belief through art
Author(s) -
Johnni Langer
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
revista de história da arte e da cultura
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2675-9829
DOI - 10.20396/rhac.v2i1.14708
Subject(s) - painting , danish , romanticism , theme (computing) , perspective (graphical) , period (music) , art history , nationalism , history , art , visual arts , aesthetics , philosophy , law , political science , linguistics , politics , computer science , operating system
This article analyzes the painting Nordisk offerscene fra den Odinske periode (Nordic sacrificial scene from the period of Odin), created by the Danish painter Johan Ludvig Gebhard Lund (1777-1867) in 1831 and which presents a theme regarding Old Norse religion and the Vikings. We have made use of Ernest Gombrich's schemata theory and the studies of reception by Margaret Clunies Ross. Our main perspective is that Lund's work was related to both Danish nationalist romanticism and to a perspective of history and art in which the ancient religious forms and idealized representations of the Vikings played a major role in shaping social and cultural identities of his time.