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| Peter Snayers Philip IV Hunting ca. 1636-38 Prado |
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| Édouard Manet Philip IV after Velázquez 1860 etching British Museum |
The abundant world of painted images commemorating the features and wardrobe of Philip IV of Spain (1605-1665) has already been explored here. Above, I add Manet's etching of 1860, a deliberately rough copy of and tribute to Philip IV in Hunting Dress, the well-known informal portrait of 1633 by Diego Velázquez (1599-1660). A whole series of earlier posts also looked at collecting patterns and projects among the many hundreds of paintings acquired in the 1630s for Philip's greater pleasure and glory (here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here). The present group was commissioned and painted specifically for the Spanish royal palace expansions of the 1630s
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| Antonio Arias Fernández Emperor Charles V & King Philip II 1639-40 Prado |
The double portrait immediately above of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558) and his son King Philip II (1527-1598) was a posthumous memorial painted several decades after both were dead.
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| Juan Andrés Rizi Don Tiburcio de Redín 1635 Prado |
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| Jusepe de Ribera Allegorical Combat of Women 1636 Prado |
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| Giovanni Romanelli Gladiators with Wooden Swords c. 1635-40 Prado |
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| Alonso Cano Miracle of the Well 1638-40 Prado |
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| Flemish painter Landscape 1630s Prado |
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| Salomon Koninck A Philosopher 1635 Prado |
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| Pietro Beato Two Philosophers 1630s Prado |
Immediately above, a pair of paintings depicting Philosophers at their mental labors. The bent-back and sat-upon volumes seem intended to signify these intangible exertions, elevated above the gross tangible world paper, ink, and vellum. Apparently these terrible heaps, these still-life arrangements of abused books, did not distress the eyes of a seventeenth-century audience. Yet they very much do distress mine.
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| Francisco Collantes The Vision of Ezekiel – The Resurrection of the Flesh 1630 Prado |
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| Cesare Fracanzano Luchadores ca. 1637 Prado |
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| Cesare Fracanzano Drunken Silenus 1630s Prado |
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| Frans Snyders Aquatic Birds with Ermines 1630s Prado |
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| Frans Snyders Young Woman with Fruit ca. 1633 Prado |
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| Andrea Vaccaro San Gennaro protecting Naples ca. 1635 Prado |
I am grateful for the beautiful reproductions made available by Museo del Prado.