Paintings for the Planet King Philip IV and the Buen Retiro Palace

Andrés Ubeda de los Cobos, Museo del Prado

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Philip IV of Spain (r. 1621-1665) was known as the 'Planet King', shining brightly in the universe of the arts even if the Golden Age of Spanish painting coincided with imperial decline. The Buen Retiro Palace surpassed any palace ever built in Europe for the collection of paintings it contained, most of them commissioned in the 1630s from the finest painters in Europe at the time-Velázquez and Zurbarán, Rubens, Claude, Poussin, Jan Both, Herman van Swaneveld, Domenichino, Lanfranco and others.

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Book information

ISBN:	9781903470435
Publisher:	Yale University Press
Imprint:	Paul Holberton Publishing
Pub date:	05 Feb 2025
DEWEY:	759.940744641
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	301
Weight:	2068g
Height:	318mm
Width:	239mm
Spine width:	30mm