King Felipe IV, the current monarch of Spain, is an Aquarius. This zodiac is known for being innovative, progressive and what some describe as “shamelessly revolutionary.” It’s not just for show, ...
Madrid’s Prado Museum has loaned a monumental 1653 Diego Velázquez painting to the Norton Simon Museum. At 14, Mariana married her uncle, Spain’s King Philip IV, then 44. The theatrical portrait has ...
In 1656, King Philip IV of Spain commissioned a portrait by Diego Velázquez, his longtime court artist. It’s a plain, dark portrait. The king is partly facing the observer and is only visible from the ...
The Spanish Army from The Thirty Years’ War to the Wars of Louis XIV Picouet, author of several works in Spanish military history in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, gives us what is both a ...
On Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV by Amanda Wunder. Recently, thirteen bronze sculptures appeared in Venice, marching single file down Saint Mark’s Square ...
Philip IV was in trouble. Spain’s far-flung empire, arguably the world’s most powerful, had seriously wobbled in the 1640s — and so had the king’s family life. When the bloody Thirty Years' War that ...
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