Baron Carl Hårleman was a Swedish

Sweden

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 architect

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Hårleman was born in Stockholm, son of the garden architect and head of the royal parks and gardens Johan Hårleman, who hade been ennobled in 1698, and began his architectural training under Göran Josua Adelcrantz. After receiving a state scholarship, he left Sweden for studies abroad in 1721, first going to Paris

Paris

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, where he spent four years as a student at the Royal French Academy of Architecture

Académie d'architecture

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 and the French Academy of Art. He later continued to Italy and was called back to Sweden while in Venice

Venice

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 in 1727.

In 1728, at the death of Nicodemus Tessin the Younger

Nicodemus Tessin the Younger

Count Nicodemus Tessin the Younger was a Swedish Baroque architect, city planner, and administrator.The son of Nicodemus Tessin the Elder and the father of Carl Gustaf Tessin, Tessin the Younger was the middle-most generation of the brief Tessin dynasty, which have had a lasting influence on...

, Hårleman was appointed court intendant and subsequently in 1741, after Tessin's son Carl Gustaf Tessin

Carl Gustaf Tessin

Count Carl Gustaf Tessin was a Swedish politician and son of architect Nicodemus Tessin the Younger and Hedvig Eleonora Stenbock.-Life:Carl Gustaf Tessin was born in Stockholm...

 had been made a member of the privy council, his successor as court superintendent. He was elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

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 in 1744, was created a baron

Baron

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 in 1747 and appointed Master of Ceremonies of the Royal Orders in 1748.

Hårleman completed the Royal Palace in Stockholm begun by Nicodemus Tessin the younger after fire had destroyed the medieval castle in 1697. He was particularly responsible for the interiors and employed a large number of qualified artisans for the work. The work on the interiors of the palace had a beneficial effect on the state of furniture-making and other crafts in Sweden and helped introduce the rococo

Rococo

Rococo , also referred to as "Late Baroque", is an 18th-century style which developed as Baroque artists gave up their symmetry and became increasingly ornate, florid, and playful...

 style to the country.

Hårleman restored Uppsala Cathedral

Uppsala Cathedral

Uppsala Cathedral is a cathedral located centrally in the city of Uppsala, Sweden. It dates back to the late 13th century and at a height of 118.7 m is the tallest church building in Scandinavia. Originally built under Roman Catholicism and used for coronations of the Swedish monarch, since the...

 and parts of Uppsala Castle

Uppsala Castle

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, both of which had been severely damaged in the Uppsala

Uppsala

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 city fire of 1702, with the ruins of the castle having also been used as a quarry for the palace project in Stockholm. On behalf of Uppsala University

Uppsala University

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, he built the Consistory House (konsistoriehuset) and the conservatory building for the botanical garden

Linnaean Garden

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 of Linnaeus

Carolus Linnaeus

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