The culmination of the Gothicism came with Olaus Rudbeck's Atlantica, a massive four-volume work (1679–1702), where Rudbeck outlined how Sweden was the most ancient of all countries, and the true location of the sunken Atlantis. But when the last volume of Atlantica was published, the Gothicism movement was already on decline.
The peak of Gothicism was marked by Olaus Rudbeck's Atlantica, a four-volume work (1679–1702), where Rudbeck asserted Sweden as the oldest nation and the true location of Atlantis. However, when the final volume of Atlantica was published, the Gothicism movement was already waning.