Jan Brueghel the Elder’s journey to Prague in 1604: works from an artistic turning point

0575575 - ÚDU 2024 RIV NL eng J - Journal Article
Bartilla, Stefan
Jan Brueghel the Elder’s journey to Prague in 1604: works from an artistic turning point.
Simiolus. Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art. Roč. 44, 3/4 (2022), s. 177-200. ISSN 0037-5411. E-ISSN 1875-6379
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Institutional support: RVO:68378033
Keywords : depictions of plants * depictions of animals * 1604 * Prague * Great Fishmarket * Rudolf II. * Jan Brueghel the Older
OECD category: Arts, Art history
Method of publishing: Open access with time embargo
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In 1604 Jan Brueghel the Elder undertook a journey to Prague to visit Emperor Rudolf II. The article puts forward theses on the reason of the trip and tries, on the basis of the inventories of Rudolf II’s collection and sources, to identify the paintings connected with the stay in Prague (except for the works after Albrecht Dürer). In my opinion, the Great Fish Market of 1603 (Munich) was painted for the Emperor. The visit to Prague is understood as a turning point in Jan Brueghel’s artistic work, in which earlier, artistic tendencies reach a conclusion and Jan Brueghel forms his future, artistic profile with a reorientation towards new, encyclopaedic themes, animal and flower painting (floral still lifes, Madonnas in flowers garlands, and flowers in natural allegories).
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0345334