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Article: Mercury and Psyche - Muller after De Vries. (engraver Jan Muller; sculptor Adriaen de Vries; Renaissance art from Prague) (Art in Context)
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- May 1, 1994
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Prague, wrote the painter and writer Karel van Mander in 1604, was the one city which the art lover must visit if he was to see all that was newest and best in contemporary Europe. At the end of the sixteenth century, the cross-currents in European art ran swiftly and powerfully, as almost never before, across the Continent, from Naples in the south to Amsterdam in the north, from Fontainebleau in the west to Prague in the east. It was in that last city that the astonishing wealth and last vestiges of the once astonishing power of the Holy Roman Emperor were held.
As his reign progressed, Rudolf II, successor to his grandfather, Emperor Charles V of Spain and his ...
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