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A 17th Century painting of the Spanish monarch Philip IV by Diego Velázquez is being reinstated to its rightful place in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
In 1973, a 1624 image of Philip IV was found to have been made by Velázquez’s studio, not the artist. A reassessment has reversed that conclusion.
NEW YORK | For nearly 60 years the portrait of a baby-faced Philip IV by Velazquez hung in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's European paintings galleries, a stunning example of the only 110 or so ...
Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez (Spanish, 1599-1660), Philip IV, 1623-27. Oil on canvas. ... It was certainly a priority in the early years of Philip IV’s reign as king of Spain, ...
DALLAS — In preparing an exhibit on 17th-century artist Diego Velazquez’s early work for Spain’s King Philip IV, art historians believe they discovered that a portrait by the Spanish master ...
And poised at left before his easel, with palette lowered and paintbrush frozen in midair, the artist himself gazes intently out, most likely at Philip IV and his wife, Marianna of Austria, whose ...
This single-painting exhibition features "King Philip IV of Spain (1644)" by Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599–1660), on loan from ...
Portraits of Philip IV typically show a tall, lantern-jawed figure with red hair, full lips, and upturned mustache, a smug king dressed in silk hose and brocade doublets. But in Wunder’s book, a ...
Madrid’s Prado Museum has loaned a monumental 1653 Diego Velázquez painting to the Norton Simon Museum. At 14, Mariana married her uncle, Spain’s King Philip IV, then 44.