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While the Chief constructor was in charge of the construction and building of the naval
ship, the drawings for the ornamentation were made in fruitful cooperation with
the professors of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. The actual carving of
the large figures was carried out under the leadership of a master carver in
one of the workshops at Holmen. The ornamentation often related to the name of
the ship or was designed to symbolize, in a stately manner, the king and the
power that he possessed. Through the beautiful, hand-colored drawings and the
ornaments still preserved in the Danish National Archives it is possible to
follow the development in the taste in art from the 1640´s and until the
1850´s; in other words from the baroque period until the end of the era of
neo-classicism.
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