Full Name: Nordström, Folke
Other Names:
- Folke Nordström
Gender: male
Date Born: unknown
Date Died: unknown
Home Country/ies: Sweden
Subject Area(s): Medieval (European) and Spanish (culture or style)
Overview
Medievalist; wrote a significant study on Goya. Nordröm was the first to note a mysterious shadow at the back of Goya’s Third of May, 1808 and hypothesize it to represent a representation of a deity.
Selected Bibliography
Mediaeval Baptismal Fonts: an Iconographical Study. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1984; The Auxerre Reliefs: a Harbinger of the Renaissance in France During the Reign of Philip le Bel. Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1974; Goya, Saturn, and Melancholy: Studies in the Art of Goya. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1962; Virtues and Vices on the 14th Century Corbels in the Choir of Uppsala Cathedral. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1956.