{"id":247,"date":"2015-01-22T17:29:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T01:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/?page_id=247"},"modified":"2026-02-02T13:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:41:12","slug":"kristoffer-neville","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/faculty\/kristoffer-neville\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristoffer Neville"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Professor
\n<\/span>Ph.D., Princeton University<\/p>\n<\/i> 231 Arts Building
\n<\/i> (951) 827-5057
\n<\/i> kneville@ucr.edu
\n<\/a><\/i> Curriculum Vitae<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Biography\/Education<\/strong><\/span>Research\/Teaching<\/strong><\/span>Selected Publications<\/strong><\/span>Books<\/strong><\/span><\/div>
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Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kristoffer Neville\u2019s work focuses on the early modern culture in northern Europe, and particularly on the integration into a more coherent and synthetic history of art of regions and traditions that often been seen as distinct. He has recently completed a book on the cultural history and significance of the courts in Copenhagen and Stockholm within northern Europe ca 1550-1720, and is beginning work on a new project on topography as a basis for history writing, with particular focus on its significance for the formation of architectural history. Other ongoing interests include architecture around 1700, prints and publishing, and early architectural literature.<\/p>\n

Education<\/strong><\/p>\n

Princeton University, Department of Art and Archaeology, Ph.D. 2007.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Areas of specialization:<\/strong> Early modern painting, sculpture, and (especially) architecture. Cultural contacts and cultural transfer. Northern Europe, ca 1500-1800.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Art and Culture of Scandinavian Central Europe, 1550\u20131720<\/em>, Penn State University Press, 2019.<\/p>\n

Queen Hedwig Eleonora and the Arts, Court Culture in Seventeenth-Century Northern Europe<\/em>, Routledge, 2017.<\/p>\n

Nicodemus Tessin the Elder. Architecture in Sweden in the Age of Greatness<\/em>. Turnhout: Brepols, 2009.<\/p>\n

\u201cRoyal and Roman in the Rebuilding of Berlin ca. 1700\u201d Visual Acuity and the Arts of Communication in Early Modern Germany<\/em>, ed Jeffrey Chipps Smith. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014: 201-219.<\/p>\n

\u201cJohan Gregor van der Schardt and Frederik II of Denmark\u201d The Sculpture Journal<\/em> 22 (2013): 21-32.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuecia antiqua et hodierna. The Life of a Topographical Viewbook in the Eighteenth Century\u201d Print Quarterly<\/em> 30 (2013): 395-408.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Land of the Goths and Vandals. The Visual Presentation of Gothicism at the Swedish Court, 1550-1700\u201d Renaissance Studies<\/em> 27 (2013): 435-459.<\/p>\n

\u201cChristian IV\u2019s Italianates. Sculpture at the Danish Court\u201d Reframing the Danish Renaissance. Problems and Prospects in a European Perspective<\/em>, ed Michael Andersen, Birgitte B\u00f8ggild Johannsen, and Hugo Johannsen. Copenhagen: The National Museum of Denmark, 2011: 335-345.<\/p>\n

\u201cFischer von Erlach\u2019s Entwurff einer historischen Architectur before 1720\u201d Wiener Jahrbuch f\u00fcr Kunstgeschichte<\/em> 59 (2010): 87-101.<\/p>\n

\u201cGothicism and Early Modern Historical Ethnography\u201d Journal of the History of Ideas<\/em> 70 (2009): 213-234.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Early Reception of Fischer von Erlach\u2019s Entwurff einer historischen Architectur\u201d Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians<\/em> 66 (2007): 154-169.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"\"The Art and Culture of Scandinavian Central Europe, 1550\u20131720<\/a><\/span>
\n2019, Penn State University Press<\/span>
\nKristoffer Neville, author<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Politically and militarily powerful, early modern Scandinavia played an essential role in the development of Central European culture from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. In this volume, Kristoffer Neville shows how the cultural ambitions of Denmark and Sweden were inextricably bound to those of other Central European kingdoms.<\/p>\n

Tracing the visual culture of the Danish and Swedish courts from the Reformation to their eventual decline in the eighteenth century, Neville explains how and why they developed into important artistic centers. He examines major projects by figures largely unknown outside of Northern Europe alongside other, more canonical artists\u2014including Cornelis Floris, Adriaen de Vries, and Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach\u2014to propose a more coherent view of this part of Europe, one that rightly includes Scandinavia as a vital component.<\/p>\n

The seventeenth century has long seemed a bleak moment in Central European culture. Neville\u2019s authoritative and unprecedented study does much to change this perception, showing that the arts did not die in the Reformation and Thirty Years\u2019 War but rather flourished in the Baltic region.<\/p>\n

\"\"Queen Hedwig Eleonora and the Arts, Court Culture in Seventeenth-Century Northern Europe<\/span><\/a>
\n2017, Routledge<\/span>
\nKristoffer Neville, author<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

As queen consort and dowager, Hedwig Eleonora (1636\u20131715) held a unique position in Sweden for more than half a century. As the dominant collector and patron of art and architecture in the realm, she left a strong mark on Swedish court culture. Her dynastic network among the Northern European courts was extensive, and this helped to make Sweden a major cultural center in Northern Europe in the later seventeenth century. This book represents the first major scholarly publication on the full range of Hedwig Eleonora\u2019s endeavours, from the financing of her court to her place within a larger princely network, to her engagements with various cultural pursuits, to her public image. As the contributors show, despite her high profile, political position, and conspicuous patronage, Hedwig Eleonora experienced little of the animosity directed at many other foreign queens and regents, such as the Medici in France and Henrietta Maria in England. In this way, she provides a model for a different and more successful way of negotiating the difficulties of joining a foreign court; the analysis of her circumstances thus adds a substantial dimension to the study of early modern queenship. Presenting much new scholarship, this volume highlights one extremely significant early modern woman and her imprint on Northern European history, and fosters international awareness of the importance of early modern Scandinavia for European cultural history.<\/p>\n

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Nicodemus Tessin the Elder. Architecture in Sweden in the Age of Greatness<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/span>2009, Brepols Publishers<\/span>
\nKristoffer Neville, author<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Nicodemus Tessin the Elder was an architect, gentleman, and founder of the artistic dynasty that was immensely influential at the Swedish court in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was architect to the crown, to the nobility, and to the city of Stockholm, and he supplied buildings for a wide range of functions, from palaces to banks, courthouses, and fortifications. His unusually extensive travels in the Netherlands, Italy, France and Germany provided him with a comprehensive picture of contemporary European architecture, which he drew on as he synthesized a new group of buildings that would attract international attention as models for princely architecture. His productivity required a new approach to architecture, and he was part of the first generation of architects in northern Europe to develop the architectural studio, distinguishing the design process from the business of building, and in the process recreating himself as the modern architect.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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