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The Forging of the Sampo, sketch for the cupola frescoes of the Finnish Pavilion at the 1900 Paris World’s Fair Wall Art
ART BY: Akseli Gallen-Kallela
The Forging of the Sampo, sketch for the cupola frescoes of the Finnish Pavilion at the 1900 Paris World’s Fair Wall Art
ART BY: Akseli Gallen-Kallela
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The Forging of the Sampo, sketch for the cupola frescoes of the Finnish Pavilion at the 1900 Paris World’s Fair is a painting, gouache, canvas, paper by Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865–1931), dated 1899. The artist is catalogued as Finnish. This reproduction is based on the copy in the Finnish National Gallery, and the file offered here measures 2000 × 1927 px (0.8 MB). Catalogued under Illustration and Realism, in square format. Archive Lane holds 630 works by Akseli Gallen-Kallela, a Finnish artist.
Akseli Gallen-Kallela was a Finnish painter and a leading figure of Finnish romantic nationalism around the turn of the 20th century. He is considered a pioneer of a distinctly Finnish national art, and his work is regarded as a very important aspect of Finnish national identity.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by Akseli Gallen-Kallela →
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