Nature Illuminated: Flora and Fauna from the Court of Emperor Rudolf II Impressionist and other innovations

and other innovations

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the detection of residues left on the surfaces of objects cleaned with these systems

37)—one of Charles's most splendid commissions from the greatest era of Netherlandish Burgundian book painting

and the vitality he infused into everything he painted

Nature Illuminated: Flora and Fauna from the Court of Emperor Rudolf II Impressionist and other innovationsLee Hendrix and Thea Vignau Wilberg The court of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II produced nothing more amazing than the Mira calligraphiae monumenta, a brilliant demonstration of two artscalligraphy and miniature painting. The project began when Rudolf's predecessor, Ferdinand I, commissioned master calligrapher Georg Bocskay to create a model book of calligraphy. A preeminent scribe, Bocskay assembled a vast selection of contemporary and historic