Talk:Johan Gustaf Sandberg

A fact from Johan Gustaf Sandberg appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 March 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Johan Gustaf Sandberg's frescoes in Uppsala Cathedral depicting Gustav Vasa were the first frescoes painted in Sweden?

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Hardly first frescos in Sweden

I cannot agree that Johan Sandberg painted the first church frescos in Sweden. I have read the encyclopedia entrey where you picked up the info but it is unfortunately incorrect. A considerable number of churches in southern Sweden have frescos dating back to the 15th century. See for example Vittskövle Church. Ipigott (talk) 09:20, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There are many photographs of old frescos in Swedish churches here. I suggest you simply remove the sentence unless you would like to be more specific (e.g. oldest 19th century frescos in Sweden), providing you can find an appropriate reference. Ipigott (talk) 16:04, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know much about frescos so I didn't know it was incorrect. I'll remove the sentence. Thanks for noticing! :) The leftorium 16:09, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Otherwise the article is very interesting. I don't know where you live in Sweden but it would be good to have images of the Uppsala frescos as part of the article. I have not been able to find any on the web. If you are now going to spend more time on art, perhaps you would like to have a look at Art of Sweden. It's been written mainly by anonymous contributors but is not a bad start. Unfortunately it lacks references and does not go into much detail. It could, for example, usefully draw on sv:Svensk konst and on other Swedish sources - such as your Conversation Encyclopedia. Please let me know if you are interested. Ipigott (talk) 09:51, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I live all the way down in Skåne and I probably won't be going to Uppsala anytime soon. As for Art of Sweden, I might be able to spend some time on it in the future. Right now I'm bit busy though and therefore I prefer to write small biographies such as this one. :) The leftorium 15:09, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]