The World Inside of Rudolf II's Cabinet of Curiosities
Noble Blood
iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild
4.8 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Rudolf II, the Holy Roman Emperor, was an obsessive collector — of art, of rare and expensive artifacts, of scientific equipment, of natural curiosities. (He claimed he had a siren's jaw and a phoenix feather.) But religious tension and foreign invasion was tearing his empire apart at the seams, and Rudolf's response was to retreat further into his own private world.
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| 1:01.1 | Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Manky, |
| 1:07.0 | listener discretion advised. If you were a time-traveler arriving at Prague Castle at the start of the 1600s, you would find yourself at the epicenter of the Holy Roman Empire, |
| 1:27.8 | a hub of culture where scholars, scientists, artists, diplomats, and religious officials milled and mingled in the castle's grand corridors. |
| 1:40.0 | But few of those illustrious visitors would have had the privilege of visiting the most private and opulent chambers in the castle |
| 1:50.8 | the personal domain of the Emperor Rudolf the second of Habsburg. |
| 1:56.7 | Rudolf was an accomplished, even obsessive collector, and his private chambers housed the painting. collective his reign. This section of the palace was known as the Kuntzkammer, which translates to |
| 2:17.1 | Cabinet of Curiosities. That said, Rudolf's Kuntzkummer was no mere cabinet. |
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