Holy Family and Two Music-Making Angels
Jan Muller Netherlandish
After Bartholomeus Spranger Netherlandish
Publisher Harmen Jansz. Muller Netherlandish
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Around 1590, Jan Muller began making engravings after designs by Bartholomeus Spranger, the court painter to the Emperor Rudolf II of Prague. Previously Hendrick Goltzius, the foremost Mannerist printmaker and most probably Muller’s teacher, had occupied the unofficial role as Spranger’s engraver, but when the former left the Netherlands to travel in Italy, Muller was the logical successor. The Holy Family with Two Music-Making Angels is Muller’s earliest print after Spranger and one of only two with religious rather than a mythological subjects, which were more typical of the worldly, sophisticated society of Rudolf’s court.
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