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Diego Velázquez, Philip IV of Spain, about 1656. Read about this painting, learn the key facts and zoom in to discover more.
Title: Philip IV (1605–1665), King of Spain. Artist: Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) (Spanish, Seville 1599–1660 Madrid) Date: probably 1624. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 78 3/4 x 40 1/2 in. (200 x 102.9 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913. Accession Number: 14.40.639.
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During those early years of his reign, Philip IV frequently appeared in public with more costly and adorned clothing, but the official image created by Velázquez avoids these adornments and emphasizes one of the king`s most important activities as a ruler: his audiences.
Philip IV. 1626 - 1628. Oil on canvas. Room 010. This is an extraordinary example of the eventful life of many royal portraits during the Siglo de Oro, and it shows just how much those paintings, rather than immutable artworks, were objects with a representative function and could thus be altered depending on the use they were assigned at any ...
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, [a] Knight of the Order of Santiago (baptized 6 June 1599 – 6 August 1660) was a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age . He was an individualistic artist of the Baroque period (c. 1600–1750).
- June 6, 1599
- August 6, 1660 (aged 61), Madrid, Spain
- Painting
Philip IV, 1624 by Diego Velázquez. Velázquez was paid for this noble portrait of King Philip IV of Spain on December 4, 1624. Velázquez had arrived in Madrid in the summer of 1623 and was made painter to the king that August. The picture was commissioned by an important person at court, Don Garcáa Párez de Araciel, and is an autograph ...
Although Diego Velázquez's primary position was one of prestigious court painter for Spain's King Philip IV during the Baroque period, he is most celebrated for breaking portraiture and scene painting out of its staid confines.
