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Culture and Education
29 June 1966

Europe and art meet in Stockholm

Sweden Sweden

The Council of Europe celebrated the life of one of the most learned women of the 17th century - Queen Christina of Sweden – with this exhibition in Stockholm. A convert to Catholicism, she abdicated the Swedish throne at the age of 27. She was a patron of the arts whose motto was “Wisdom supports the nation”.

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