Sten Sture the Elder
Videos
Sten Sture the Elder was a Swedish statesman and regent of Sweden from 1470 to 1497 and again from 1501 to 1503. As the leader of the victorious Swedish separatist forces against the royal unionist forces during the Battle of Brunkeberg in 1471, he weakened the Kalmar Union considerably and became the effective ruler of Sweden as Lord Regent for most of his remaining life.
Saint George and the Dragon, commonly attributed to Bernt Notke, in Storkyrkan, Stockholm
18th century burial monument in Strängnäs Cathedral
The Sten Sture Monument in Uppsala, by Carl Milles
Bernt Notke
Videos
Bernt Notke was a late Gothic artist from the Baltic region. He has been described as one of the foremost artists of his time in northern Europe.
The Lübeck Danse Macabre (detail, photographic reproduction, original destroyed)
Lübecker Totentanz by Bernt Notke (around 1463, destroyed in a bombing raid in 1942)
The Tallinn Danse Macabre showing left to right human figures representing the Pope, the Emperor, a Queen, a Cardinal, and a King
The Lübeck triumphal cross