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The Masterpieces of the Prague Castle Picture Gallery

其他書名	Tizian, Tintoretto, Veronese, Rubens and Others
出版	National Gallery of Slovenia, 2020
ISBN	96167438219789616743822
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=hDilzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The Prague Castle Picture Gallery (Obrazárna Pražského hradu) belongs to the rare European art collections that have continuously existed for a number of centuries to the present. Its existence and fate were impacted greatly by the turbulent events of Czech and general European history. Emperor Rudolf II was considered a passionate collector, but his ultimate goal was not to endlessly amass rare, outstanding, interesting or bizarre items and curiosities. He appreciated and was interested in everything created by nature and by humans through the ingenuity of their mind in the fields of arts and crafts, in which the artists and scientists gathered at his court were involved. During Rudolf's reign, Prague became the metropolis of the Holy Roman Empire and a "mecca for sciences and arts" for the second time in its history. His gallery, which housed about three thousand paintings, and the collections in the so-called Kunstkammer, cabinet of curiosities, were not meant to be admired by the public but by those who knew how to appreciate their quality and profit from their message.The war that engulfed Europe after Rudolf's death affected the collection of paintings as well. Everything that had not been taken to Vienna was seized by the Swedish army. In 1648, at the request of Queen Christina, it took away some valuable paintings and statues from the Prague imperial collection.