When Rudolf II was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 1576, he quickly filled his castle with artistic and scientific treasures. Marshall returns repeatedly to Rudolf's attempt to create a "theatre of ...

Thanks to a 17th-century letter written by the royal doctor Johannes Marcus Marci, scholars can trace its ownership back to the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, who bought it from an unnamed seller ...

In 1586 the pope's man accused John Dee of trading with Satan and persuaded Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia and Hungary, Lord of Austria and the English soothsayer's erstwhile ...

One of the more controversial members of the House of Habsburg, Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II (1552-1612) has historically been considered a failed ruler – or worse, a manic-depressive follower ...

The subject of this coruscating attack was the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II, and his court at Prague. Rudolph had turned Prague into a collector’s cabinet for the wonders and curiosities of the ...

Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I first claimed the artist ... He continued with the Habsburgs under Maximilian II, and when Rudolf II moved the court from Vienna to Prague, Arcimboldo made the ...

But when the work was acquired by Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, who was related to King Philip II of Spain, experts believe he had the slaughtered babies painted over. Desmond Shawe-Taylor ...