Art at Court Rudolph II.
Rudolph II. (1552-1612)
• Holy Roman Emperor
• King of Hungary and Croatia
• King of Bohemia
• Archduke of Austria
Prague Castle, 1595
Tycho de Brahe Johannes Kepler
Albrecht Dürer, Feast of the Rosary, 1506, Prague, National Gallery
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Emperor
Rudolph II as God Vertumnus,
1590, Skokloster Castle
Bartholomeus Spranger, Hercules,
Déianeira and Nessos, 1580, Vienna,
Kunsthistorisches Museum
Bartholomeus Spranger, Salmacis and
Hermaphroditos, cca 1585, Vienna,
Kunsthistorisches Museum
Hans von Aachen, Portrait of Anna
of Tirol, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches
museum, 1604
Hans von Aachen, Pan and Selené, private collection
Hans von Aachen, Triumph of Bacchus, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
Pieter Stevens, Charles Bridge in Prague, drawing, Prague, National gallery, 1604-1607
Ottavio Miseroni and Paulus van
Vianen, Jasper ewer, c. 1590–1600,
Vienna, KHM
Hans Jacob Bachmann, Table
Automat with Diana on Kenthaur,
Vienna, KHM
Johannes Reinhold, Mechanical
Celestial Globe, Vienna, KHM
Clement Kiclinger, Ostrich Egg Bowl,
Vienna, KHM
Bartholomeus Spranger, Epitaph of
publisher Michael Peterle of
Annaberg, 1588. Prague, formerly
in the Church of St. Stephan
Epitaph of Brno burgher
Michael Reich (†1592)
Karel Škréta, Portrait of the Gemcutter
Dionysio Miseroni and his
Family, Prague, National gallery, 1653
Allegorical Sheet of Sack of Magdeburg, 1631
Second Defenestration of Prague
Battle of White Mountain, 8. 11. 1620
Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von
Wallenstein (1583-1634)
• supreme commander of the
armies of the Habsburg Monarchy
• imperial generallissimo
• admiral of the Baltic sea
Battle of Dessau Bridge – Defeat of general Mansfeld by Wallenstein army, 25. 4. 1626, etching,
castle Český Šternberk
Battle of Lützen, 6. 11. 1632, engraving
Prague, Wallenstein Palace
Main Hall, paintings by Baccio del Bianco
Main Hall, God Mars with his quadriga
Audience Hall, paintings by Domenico Pugliani
Mythological Corridor – so called
lower gallery
Pyramus and Thisbé
Astrological Corridor – so called
upper gallery
Astrological Corridor – Planets Jupiter and Saturn
Garden
Garden: Adrian de Vries,
Laocoon, bronze replica
Drottningholm Palace
Codex Gigas, Stockholm, Royal Library
Codex Gigas