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Philip IV of Spain. Philip IV ( Spanish: Felipe IV, Portuguese: Filipe III; 8 April 1605 – 17 September 1665) was King of Spain between 1621 and 1665. He was also sovereign of the Spanish Netherlands and King of Portugal until 1640. His daughter was Marie Thérèse of Austria, wife of Louis XIV.
Philip IV: marriage and offspring. Even as a child, Philip became the object of a dynastic union intended to underpin the rapprochement with France, a Great Power that was now growing in strength and influence. At the age of eleven he was betrothed to the ten-year-old Isabelle of Bourbon (1603–1644), daughter of King Henry IV.
Philip IV ruled for forty-four years, but his reign was characterized by inconsistency and contradictions. Philip’s personality is often regarded as reflecting the decline of Spain as a Great Power. Under his rule the Spanish court is supposed to have been a hotbed of pleasure-seeking, rampant favouritism and pervasive corruption.
In February 1623, the recently crowned Philip IV enacted twenty-three articles of reform that abolished the exuberant dress typical of men at the Spanish court in favor of the highly regulated, somber statement seen here: a plain black suit and flat linen collar (<i>valona</i>) worn atop a stiff support (<i>golilla</i>)
1605 - 1665. Philip IV (1605 - 1665) was crowned king of Spain in 1621. He was the son of Philip III and Margaret of Austria. During his reign Spanish foreign power declined; he failed to regain control of the north Netherlands and lost wars against France. But at home he proved to be an important patron of the arts. His court painter was ...
The Gardner portrait of Philip IV of Spain is a version of the famous portrait in the Prado, Madrid, and is one in a series Velázquez painted of the King after the artist's appointment to the court in 1623. The Prado portrait was painted around 1628 and the Gardner version shortly thereafter. Remarkably, the Prado picture as we see it today ...
Philip IV. as Philip IV king of Spain from 1621; as Philip III king of Portugal 1621–1640. Born in Valladolid (Spain) on 8 April 1605. Died in Madrid on 17 September 1665. His reign represented an epoch of cultural brilliance for Spain in the latter years of the ‘Golden Age’, but also marked the political decline and fall of this great ...
