The main investigative endeavour is to ponder on the involvement of nationalism in Danish artistic production: in particular, the theme of the norns. As an analysis methodology, I have chosen John Harvey’s considerations about visual culture, about understanding tradition and the intrinsic characteristics of the artefacts, their materiality and their situation.Īs my main theoretical support for the theme of artistic reception I follow the idea that the popularity of Norse mythology in visual arts was due to its connection with ideals of national cultures and the political situation of each Scandinavian country at that time, as defined by Norwegian art historian Knut Ljøgodt. Given that the images provide access to contemporary views of a given social world, they then need a series of contexts (cultural, political, material and artistic) in order to be understood. In such an approach, I seek to understand the fundamental social context in which a particular visual culture was created. As the main theoretical foundations for the study of images, I rely on studies from the realm of cultural history, especially those of Peter Burke.
A few decades later, there was a decline in National Romanticism in the reception of Nordic themes. My paper investigates the representations of norns in Danish art, choosing a specific historical period extending from the first representation in 1780s until 1850.
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