The Court of Philip IV.
Author: Martin Andrew Sharp Hume
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 566
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A Palace for a King
Author: Jonathan Brown
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 0300101856
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Buen Retiro, a royal retreat and pleasure palace, was built for Philip IV on the outskirts of Madrid in the 1630s. With its superb display of paintings by Vel zquez and other contemporary artists, the palace became a showcase for the art and culture of Spain's Golden Age. A Palace for a King, first published in 1980, provides a pioneering total history of the construction, decoration, and uses of a major royal palace, emphasising the relationship of art and politics at a critical moment in European history. produced on different aspects of the history of the palace and its decoration since the 1970s. A number of new, unpublished illustrations have been added, and many of the plates are now reproduced in colour. The publication of this edition gains added importance from the fact that plans for the expansion of the Prado Museum include the restoration of the Hall of Realms to approximate its original appearance, as reconstructed in this volume.
Ambassadors in Golden-age Madrid
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Published: 2020
Total Pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9788415245940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Court of Philip IV.: Spain in Decadence
Author: Martin A. S. Hume
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-05-29
Total Pages: 461
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Court of Philip IV.: Spain in Decadence is a book by Martin Andrew Sharp Hume. It serves as a biography on Philip IV, who was King of Spain from 1621 to his death in 1665.
The Court of Philip IV.: Spain in Decadence
Author: Martin A. S. Hume
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-12-16
Total Pages: 463
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Court of Philip IV.: Spain in Decadence is a book by Martin Andrew Sharp Hume. It serves as a biography on Philip IV, who was King of Spain from 1621 to his death in 1665.
Philip IV and the Government of Spain, 1621-1665
Author: R. A. Stradling
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-10-03
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780521530552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book concentrates on the political history of the reign of Philip IV, and the role of the king within it. Philip is kept near the forefront, and issues and events are often seen - if sometimes critically - from his viewpoint. It is, therefore, a work of revision and rehabilitation, representing an attempt (against all other extant accounts) to establish Philip IV as a positive figure, with an autonomous character and political identity. A secondary, supportive, intention is to demonstrate that after the fall of Olivares, the king ruled and governed without a favourite (valido). This is the central theme in the most detailed treatment of the second half of the reign available in any language. Reference is made throughout to Philip's own words and actions. At the same time, the Olivares period itself is approached from a new perspective, some issues being examined with the use of new material. Although not intended as a conventional biography, the book retains several characteristics of the form, in that it is a 'career-study', part thematic, part chronological. Philip IV is examined also in relation to the political writing of the age, and to his court and capital in Madrid.
Empire of Eloquence
Author: Stuart M. McManus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-04-08
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 110890498X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of the culture of public speaking in the Iberian world, which places the classical rhetorical tradition within the context of Iberian global expansion in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.
Art and Death at the Spanish Habsburg Court
Author: Steven N. Orso
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 242
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen King Philp IV of Spain died on September 17, 1665, he had ruled the Spanish empire for more than 44 years. In keeping with Habsburg tradition, following the entombment the Court undertook royal exequies, or funerary honours, intended to commemorate the deceased and to reassure his subjects that the monarchy would continue in an orderly fashion. These observances took place in a church adorned with a majestic ensemble of temporary decorations that had been designed especially for the occasion.
El Greco to Velazquez
Author: Sarah Schroth
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Apr. 20-July 27, 2008 and at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Aug. 21-Nov. 9, 2008.
Painter to the King
Author: Amy Sackville
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Published: 2019-04
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781783783922
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a portrait of Diego Velázquez, from his arrival at the court of King Philip IV of Spain in May 1622, to his death 38 years and several hundred paintings later. It is a portrait of a relationship that is not quite a friendship, between a king and his subject and between an artist and his subject. It is a portrait of a ruler, always on duty, and increasingly burdened by a life of public expectation and repeated private grief. And it is a portrait of a court collapsing under the weight of its own excess.
