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Valdemar Atterdag Holding Visby to Ransom, 1361
The tale of the Danish King Valdemar Atterdag’s sacking of Visby tells how the Danes gave the citizens of the city an ultimatum: fill three oil barrels with silver or watch your city burn! The merchants of the trading city are said to have filled the Danes’ barrels in less than a day. Hellqvist blends faithfulness to realistic historical detail with his own imagination, anachronisms and rousing st…
Creator
Subject
- Valdemar IV Atterdag
Type of item
- Visual arts
- paintings (visual works)
- http://udcdata.info/065280
- Visual Works (hierarchy name)
Creator
Subject
- Valdemar IV Atterdag
Type of item
- Visual arts
- paintings (visual works)
- http://udcdata.info/065280
- Visual Works (hierarchy name)
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Nationalmuseum, Sweden
Creation date
- 1882
- 1882
Places
- Sverige (Sverige)
Provenance
- Gift of wholesale dealer Fredrik Bünsow 1891
Identifier
- NM 1431
- 18434
Extent
- Mått 200 x 330 cm
Format
- Oil on canvas
- Oil painting
Year
- 1882
Providing country
- Sweden
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2017-01-11T14:09:07.987Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2017-01-11T14:26:38.638Z