were decorated by Adelcrantz with exquisite taste in white
and gold, and which in their day had vibrated both with the
"report of Anckarström's pistol" ^* and the silver tones of
Jenny Lind, is gone forever. Adelcrantz made the draw-
ings for Norrbro, of which the foundation-stone was laid
in 1787, and which was completed in 1806. Its mighty
arches, constructed of granite blocks, emphasize by their
massive beauty the thinness and poverty of our modern
iron bridges. The Adolphus Frederick Church in Stock-
holm is built after plans by Adelcrantz like an equibranchi-
ated Grecian cross with cupola, but the small dimensions and
especially the consequent low position of the windows
weaken the impression which the visitor experiences in sim-
ilar Italian churches. In the luxuriant verdure of Drottning-
holm park gleams the small, red-painted pleasure palace,
China, its rococo forms intermingled with Chinese orna-
ments. At the time when it was built (1763) Chinese por-
celain, then called East Indian, was in great vogue, and so
was China's industrial art in general, for it harmonized in
several respects with the super-refined, sumptuous taste of
the rococo. The coquettish pleasure palace, a plaything for
adults, was also a creation of Adelcrantz.

The Storkyrka in Stockholm, which had been rebuilt by
Johan Eberhard Carlberg, was completed in 1743. The
tower is one of the most tasteful and beautiful in the church
architecture of the period.

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