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Original fileLuitenant-kolonel Officieren en soldaten uit de lijfwacht van keizer Rudolf II (serietitel), NG-2011-72-1
after Hendrick Goltzius
A high-ranking officer in elaborate 16th-century military attire stands in a landscape, holding a long-handled halberd. He wears a heavily textured, slashed doublet with puffed sleeves and a wide lace collar, exemplifying the flamboyant Mannerist aesthetic. In the background, soldiers are visible in a valley, while the foreground shows a rocky outcrop under a vast, clouded sky.
This print belongs to a series dedicated to the military officers of Emperor Rudolf II, whose court in Prague served as the most significant center for alchemy and Hermetic philosophy in the late Renaissance. As a leading figure of Haarlem Mannerism, Goltzius’s work was central to the aesthetic of the Rudolfine 'theatrum mundi,' where social and military order reflected a larger cosmic hierarchy under the patronage of the 'Hermetic Emperor.'
HG Inue. Ab: londerseel excudit 2 Munus ego absentis Ducis expleo, et alter ab illo Jure Locum teneo, iure capesso vicem.
Translation
HG Inue. Ab: londerseel excudit 2 I fulfill the duty of the absent Duke, and as another for him I hold the position by right, by right I take his place.
Rudolf II
The subject is a member of the Emperor's personal guard during his reign in Prague, a period defined by imperial patronage of the occult sciences.
Hendrick Goltzius
The artist was a pivotal figure in the intellectual and artistic exchange between Haarlem and the Hermetic court of Rudolf II.
Object
Engraving
portrait
Digital Source
Wikimedia Commons · CC0
https://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.628082
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4926 × 7058 px
bb0335b3b3fb2c9a5aab1246b836c4af3e3f0b9b
December 18, 2019
March 23, 2026
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