influence on the development of church architecture; on the
other hand it was extensively used in secular buildings and
notably in a series of buildings erected under Frederik II
and Christian IV (Kronborg, Vallö Castle, Frederiksborg,
Rosenborg, and the Copenhagen Exchange), which al-
though they unquestionably are modelled closely on build-
ings in the Netherlands, yet show distinct adaptation to
Danish taste, and have ever since been held in esteem as
something of a national product. The Dutch influence was
succeeded in the eighteenth century by the baroque and the
rococo, to which we owe some of the most beautiful work
in Copenhagen and its neighborhood. Häusser's Chris-
tiansborg, of which the interior was decorated under the
direction of Thura and Eigtved, has been burned down, and
so has Thura's Hirschholm Castle; but of the work of this
great builder, author of "The Danish Vitruvius," there re-
main, among other things, the Hermitage in Dyrehaven,
the Prince's Palace in Copenhagen, and Vor Frelsers Kirke
at Kristianshavn. The four palaces of Amalienborg Plads
--perhaps in their way the most beautiful in all Europe--
still support Eigtved's claim to the title of the supreme rep-

Amalienborg in Copenhagen, designed by Nikolai Eigtved

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