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Maurice, Frederick Denison

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Excursus: Goltzius As Epitome Of the Turners' Art1

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“…85 In 1599 Rudolf had a turning workshop installed in the imperial palace at Prague by Georg Wecker, Johann's father, and he also employed Peter Zick the Elder, with whom he studied turning.l" The imperial interest in the mechanics of the lathe, the most precise and complex machine of its time, goes back, as the scholar Klaus Maurice has shown, at least to the Emperor Maximilian I, whose lathe, made in Sterzing around 1500 -18, survives. 87 None of the objects turned by Rudolf has been identified, but those produced by Duke Maximilian of Bavaria can give some idea of the nature of such artefacts, handles, 1608. Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich 47 Maximilian I of Baviaria, Lathe-Turned Candlestick with Reflector, ivory, 1608.…”

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