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Rudolfine Prague

Rudolf II (1552-1612), son of Maxmilian II become Bohemian King in 1576. Under Rudolf, Prague become a center for late-Renaissance science. As well as other skilled practitioners of the sciences, famous scientists such as Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler lived in Prague at this time. The humanist character that Rudolf brought to Prague brought the success of these people, this is after he reinforced pan-Sophism to Prague.

Prague served as a center for art in this time as well. The late-mannerist style of painting by Bartolemeus Spranger, psychological portraits of Hans von Aachen, and the devotee to relationships of colors and music, Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Other innovations within art during this time in Prague were new landscape styles, animal genre, and the relationship of man to nature; by Roelant Savery.

Towards the end of Rudolfine Prague, Catholicism started a Counter-Reformation. This was caused by the Hadsburgs, against Bohemian nobility. Under the rule of Ferdinand II, Catholicism was restored in Prague. Ferdinand got his rule taken away from the Bohemian nobles, and the Thiry Years' War was hastened.