The Thorvaldsen Museum bears the name of one of Europe’s most renowned sculptors, Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844). Having spent more than 40 years work…

When the term, grotesques, first arose around the year 1500 in Italy, it referred specifically to ornamental frescoes featuring exceptionally inventiv…

Why do humans form groups? Why would a brain, preoccupied with predicting the world, make the formation of cultures possible? And how does our socio-h…

When it comes to images, we are all animists. Deep down, we all know that images can – at least potentially – be alive or come to life. Nowadays, we m…

The Danish Archaeological Expedition to Hama in Syria in the 1930s discovered an ancient town lived in for thousands of years. Members of the Expediti…

What do we mean when we say "the people"? In a Nordic context, the word "people" was historically associated not with members of a sovereign nation bu…

Cultural differences are often the trigger for conflict – whether politically motivated or arising from dissonant understandings of national culture.…

Nordic children’s books and media have changed greatly over the past 250 years. Form and content, materiality, concepts of childhood, and media techno…

Son of Spinoza sheds light on the interconnectedness between Jewishness and cosmopolitanism in the oeuvre of the Danish-Jewish intellectual Georg…

Peter Brandes is one of the most significant Danish visual artists alive today. He is represented in the collections of leading museums worldwide, inc…

For almost a century, music on the radio has been an important part of  Danish music culture. Tunes for All? Music on Danish Radio presents the many w…

The articles in this number of Romantik include new research on reverie and dream as the locus of metaphor in Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unboun…