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the germs.
10
Early-seventeenth-century remarks about Rudolf II suggest that he,
too, suffered from great depression and melancholy and may have died as a result.
11
Archduke Matthias had begun his successful agitation to end his older brother
Rudolf’s reign by the very year Savery had arrived at court, in 1604.
12
At that time
Matthias had mobilized Hungarian allies enabling him to force his brother’s hand
and turn over rule of Moravia, Hungary, and Austria. But by that time, it was also
clear that Rudolf II was more interested in devoting himself entirely to the occult
arts and sciences, and to his animals, libraries, and galleries rich with treasures, than
to the annoying inconveniences of politics, particularly war with the Ottomans.
10 http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/402/roelandt-savery-flemish-1576-1639/.
11 De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (The Great Theatre of
Dutch Painters) 1718, https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/houb005groo01_01/houb005groo01_01_0027.
php Accessed April 24, 2020. See also, “Rudolf II,” in Impossible Objects, “Fragments,” by R. J.
W. Evans, [A fascinating Gestalt of Rudolf’s life and times] http://www.impossibleobjectsmarfa.
com/fragments-2/rudolf-ii, Accessed April 24, 2020.
12 See “Roelandt Savery: a painter in the services of Emperor Rudolf II,” Exhibition: 8 December
2010 – 20 March 2011, CODART, https://www.codart.nl/guide/agenda/roelandt-savery-a-painterin-the-services-of-emperor-rudolf-ii/. Accessed April 24, 2020.
Fig. 59.3 Engraving of a Floating Castle, a Mythologized Kingdom of Human/Landscape
Interactions such as was Enshrined by Kings and Emperors like Rudolf II, By David Vinckboons,
Engraver Nicolaes de Bruyn, 1601. (Private Collection). (Photo © M.C. Tobias)
59.1 A Painter, an Emperor, a Castle, and a Bird
the germs.
10
Early-seventeenth-century remarks about Rudolf II suggest that he,
too, suffered from great depression and melancholy and may have died as a result.
11
Archduke Matthias had begun his successful agitation to end his older brother
Rudolf’s reign by the very year Savery had arrived at court, in 1604.
12
At that time
Matthias had mobilized Hungarian allies enabling him to force his brother’s hand
and turn over rule of Moravia, Hungary, and Austria. But by that time, it was also
clear that Rudolf II was more interested in devoting himself entirely to the occult
arts and sciences, and to his animals, libraries, and galleries rich with treasures, than
to the annoying inconveniences of politics, particularly war with the Ottomans.
10 http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/402/roelandt-savery-flemish-1576-1639/.
11 De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (The Great Theatre of
Dutch Painters) 1718, https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/houb005groo01_01/houb005groo01_01_0027.
php Accessed April 24, 2020. See also, “Rudolf II,” in Impossible Objects, “Fragments,” by R. J.
W. Evans, [A fascinating Gestalt of Rudolf’s life and times] http://www.impossibleobjectsmarfa.
com/fragments-2/rudolf-ii, Accessed April 24, 2020.
12 See “Roelandt Savery: a painter in the services of Emperor Rudolf II,” Exhibition: 8 December
2010 – 20 March 2011, CODART, https://www.codart.nl/guide/agenda/roelandt-savery-a-painterin-the-services-of-emperor-rudolf-ii/. Accessed April 24, 2020.
Fig. 59.3 Engraving of a Floating Castle, a Mythologized Kingdom of Human/Landscape
Interactions such as was Enshrined by Kings and Emperors like Rudolf II, By David Vinckboons,
Engraver Nicolaes de Bruyn, 1601. (Private Collection). (Photo © M.C. Tobias)
59.1 A Painter, an Emperor, a Castle, and a Bird