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2 unusual facts about Kristian Zahrtmann


Kristian Zahrtmann

He had already become interested in the story of the heroic 17th century daughter of a Danish king, Leonora Christina Ulfeldt (also known as Eleanor Christine), before the 1869 posthumous publication of her 1674 autobiographical narrative Jammers Minde ("Remembrance of Misery"), which he had received as a birthday gift from Haslund and Krohn.

He traveled for the first time to the mountain town of Civita d'Antino in June 1883, a town he came to consider his second home.



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