#bust painting

[royalty-nobility]

King Philip II of Spain (1527-1598), Bust in Spanish Court Dress with the Order of the Golden Fleece

Artist: Alonso Sanchez Coello (Spanish, 1531/1532-1588)

Date: c. 1568

Medium: Oil painting

Collection: Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Austria

Description

Alonso Sánchez Coello, a student of Anthony Mors, was first court painter to John III of Portugal, then to Philip II of Spain. This bust of the king is a variant of a portrait in the Prado in Madrid, also attributed to Sánchez, in which the sitter's hands can also be seen. Philip II is wearing Spanish court dress with the Order of the Golden Fleece, the symbol of the knightly order of the same name that the Habsburgs had adopted from the Burgundians. Philip II, known as "El Prudente" (= the Wise), was born in 1527 as the son of Emperor Charles V and Isabella of Portugal. In 1556 he became King of Spain. His reign brought Spain's supremacy within the European states. Philip II also suffered some major defeats: in 1579/81 the northern provinces of the Netherlands were lost, and in 1588 the Spanish Armada was defeated by England. This was offset by the acquisition of Portugal and its large colonial empire. The greatest victory of the century, however, was the destruction of the Turkish fleet at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571 under the leadership of Don Juan de Austria, a half-brother of King Philip. His four marriages to Mary of Portugal, Mary Tudor, Isabella of Valois and Archduchess Anne were in line with political goals. Philip II's conscientiousness and absolute self-control were both admired and feared.

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