HIIU-SUUREMÕISA AND KOLGA. TWO MANOR ENSEMBLES OF THE DE LA GARDIE AND STENBOCK FAMILIES IN THE MIRROR OF THE 17TH–18TH CENTURY NOBLE CULTURE

Authors

  • Juhan Maiste

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12697/BJAH.2021.22.03

Keywords:

Nobility and the Baltic villa rustica, Kolga and Hiiu-Suuremõisa manors of the De la Gardie and Stenbock families, North European influence and architectural treatises, local taste and building activities

Abstract

Kolga (Kolck) and Hiiu-Suuremõisa (Dagö-Grossenhof) are two of
the most prominent manor ensembles in Estonia. Belonging to the
De la Gardie and Stenbock families, their architectural histories
have been thoroughly studied both in Sweden and Estonia. In the
1930s, Professor Sten Karling compiled a survey of Jacob and Magnus
Gabriel De la Gardie’s projects for the castles of Haapsalu and
Kuressaare (Arensburg). Based on unpublished archival materials,
the primary aim of this article is to introduce new data about the
ambitions and main trends of the Baltic high nobility in their faraway
Estonian estates. The second and even more important task of the
essay is to offer a new outlook on the building activities regarding
the Baltic villa rustica in its golden age within the Baltic aristocratic
architecture. Beside the patrons of both manor ensembles – the De
la Gardies and Stenbocks, the author has studied multiple sources of
international and local architectural development in tandem with the
archival findings and comparative art-historical research, to shine
a new light on the main trends of the Baltic cultural history of the
Enlightenment period.

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Author Biography

Juhan Maiste

Juhan Maiste is Professor and Head of the Department of Art
History at the University of Tartu. PhD at the Moscow Central
Institute of Art history (1985), doctoral studies at the university
of Helsinki, second Doctoral degree at the Estonian Academy of
Arts (1995). The annual Baltic prize for the best scientific research
(1997). Fellow and scholarships at the universities of Stockholm,
Oxford, British Academy, and ICCROM in Rome. Visiting professor
at the universities of Helsinki, Turku, Oulu in Finland, Greifswald,
Sapienza University of Rome. Doctor Honoris Causa of the Latvian
Academy of Sciences. Main fields of study: classical ideal and its
reflections in the Renaissance and Neoclassicism in Northern
Europe and Baltic countries, manor architecture, the university
landscape of the Enlightenment period. He is author of several
monographs on philosophy and the poetics of art history, cultural
heritage and landscape architecture. Recent publications include:
series of publications on the architectural and cultural history of
Tartu University and the architecture of Johann Wilhelm Krause
(5 volumes, 1999–2016), Eesti kunsti ajalugu = History of Estonian Art,
1770–1830 (ed. by Juhan Maiste, 2016).

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Published

2022-01-31

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