The Experience of Nature

The Experience of Nature

March 19, 2025 June 30, 2025 Exhibition has ended
Prints With Top Mat

Reproduction under Marie-Louise Joris Hoefnagel - Spring, from the series Four Seasons and Four Ages of Man, 1589

IE200186
JORIS HOEFNAGEL (1542-1600)
Spring, from the series Four Seasons and Four Ages of Man, 1589.
Watercolor, gouache and gold on vellum, lined on paper and mounted on a thin wooden panel. H. 12.5 ; W. 18.5 cm. Paris, Musée du Louvre, Département des Arts graphiques.
© Photo 2005 Musée du Louvre, dist. GrandPalaisRmn / M. Beck-Coppola.
Made in France by GrandPalaisRmn 2025.

Our Selection

An extraordinary inventory of living things

Discover the arts in Prague under Rudolf II

The Experience of Nature. Art in Prague at the Court of Rudolf II

Like other great sovereigns, the Emperor Rudolf II (1552-1616) was a fervent advocate of the arts and sciences. During his reign, Prague became an intellectual hub where thinkers, scientists and artists from all over Europe came to meet. Passionate about nature as well as esotericism, astronomy and science, Rudolf II transformed his court into a research laboratory.

Bouquet de fleurs. Lille, Palais des Beaux-Arts © Photo GrandPalaisRmn (PBA, Lille) / J. Quecq d’Henripret.
Le Printemps, de la série des Quatre Saisons et quatre âges de l’homme. Musée du Louvre © Photo 2005 Musée du Louvre, dist. GrandPalaisRmn / M. Beck-Coppola.
Vallée étendue, vue entre deux hauteurs rocheuses. Musée du Louvre © Photo 2012 Musée du Louvre, dist. GrandPalaisRmn / Th. Ollivier.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Vertumne. Stockholm, Skoklosters Slott
Hans Hoffmann, Lièvre entouré de plantes. Rome, Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica © Photo gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica, Roma / E. Fontolan

The "Experience of Nature" exhibition aims to highlight this singular current known as "naturalism", with its drawings of plants and animals by artists favoured by the Empire, the earliest attempts to establish of an inventory of living things.

In constant touch with nature, they expanded their range of practices and deployed a vast range of previously untapped materials and subjects. These new forms define our modern view of the arts in Prague under Emperor Rudolf II.

Filters
{{ keyword }} -{{ keyword }} {{ selectedFilter.label }}
19 products
Sort by: