CASTLE, Dürer National Gallery
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Among the many important paintings held in Prague, a place of honor is no doubt reserved for the work entitled “The Feast of the Rose Garlands”, one of the three altarpieces painted by Albrecht Dürer around 1506, during his time in Venice.
Considered by academics to be the masterwork of the finest artist of the German Renaissance, the painting was brought to Prague on the orders of the Emperor Rudolf II, who sought to gather the largest collection of paintings north of the Alps in his capital city.
The painting escaped the looting of the collection in the Castle during the Thirty Years’ War, because it was at the Strahov Monastery at the time. Since 1933, it has been the undisputed jewel in the crown of the National Gallery....