#felipe IV

[little-candy-store-of-horrors]

"Bella gerunt alii, tu felix Austria nube!"

Day 6 of @spaus-week 's challenge

"Let others wage war, you, happy Austria, marry!" Was the political strategy of the Habsburgs, and marry did the House of Austria! Infamously, scandalously, sensationally. A mangled wreath of a family tree. We all know this horror story. And we all know the bitter end.

After Emperor Charles V&I divided his Spanish and Austrian inheritance ((also gained through his parents' and grandparents' marriages)) to his descendants and those of his younger brother Ferdinand I respectively, the Habsburg dynasty split into two branches. The Spanish and Austrian Habsburgs notoriously intermarried for generations, right up till Charles II of Spain whose heirless death in 1700 sparked the War of the Spanish Succession. The inbreeding and this informal Latin motto behind it has been blamed to hell and back for their implosion, for the physical ugliness that ran in this royal bloodline. But it is not to say the Habsburgs never went to war, nor that dynastic marriage was a political strategy unique to them! But they were, if anything, bloody successful at it seeing how they did rule half of Europe for 200 years, and then a lot of it in the Austrian line for another 200. Before anyone figured out inbreeding was bad it was considered a privilege to marry into the Habsburgs, with Louis XV claiming that Louis XVI's betrothal to Marie Antoinette was marrying the "Daughter of the Caesars", and Napoleon Bonaparte infamously ditching Josephine for Marie Louise. Charles II was a poor sod who took the fall and the mugs were wretched from the same ugly gene being passed around countless times*, but they did wear power and privilege well.

💅✨ Symbolism bc I'm a NERD and this my Category 10 autism event ✨💅 :

Charles V & Ferdinand I's joint portrait based on that propaganda woodcut, behind them the colours of the Habsburg flag.

The Spanish branch, comprising Charles V & I's descendants, is represented with a black background, and the Austrian branch, comprising Ferdinand I's descendants, gold, both colours pulled from their flag, a dynasty intertwined but split in two.

Round frames denote that the individual had no heirs.

Only the most influential ruler on both sides, the King of Spain and the Holy Roman Emperor, are represented as framed portraits, explaining Archduke Charles II's unframed depiction.

The unconventional placement of Charles II of Spain and Emperor Rudolf II's nameplates are a nod to their queerness: their intersexuality and bisexuality respectively.

Ferdinand III's portrait is lopsided because of the losses of the 30 Years War.

Cracks in Charles II's portrait: 🙃🙃🙃

[theladygruoch]

Sor María de Jesús why would you write that. Why would you tell your good buddy Felipe that God hates the way all his wives and daughters and nieces dress. Sor María you and I both know that is a very rude thing to do to an old man with depression.

[dreamconsumer]

Felipe IV of Spain by Gaspar de Crayer.

[isadomna]

María Inés Calderón (1611 – 1646 )

“A woman who apparently was not beautiful, but she had a lot of grace and charm. In addition to reciting, singing and dancing very well.”- Elvira Menéndez

María Inés Calderón, known as La Calderona and Marizápalos, was the most important actress in the Spain of the seventeenth century, who became the mistress of King Felipe IV and mother of his illegitimate son, Juan José of Austria. La Calderona was involved in a relationship with Ramiro Pérez de Guzmán, Duke of Medina de las Torres, at the time Felipe IV first saw and got smitten by the actress-singer on her debut at the Corral de la Cruz theatre in Madrid in 1627. But when the king got in the way, the lover had no choice but bow his head. La Calderona became the favorite of Felipe IV.

Enamoured of the red-headed actress, Felipe IV installed his lover in a balcony overlooking the square, a decision that flew right in the face of convention as these seats were meant to be the exclusive preserve of the aristocracy. After spotting her rival sitting in the posh seats, the queen Isabel de Borbón flew into a rage and threw La Calderona out of her love nest in the palace. To compensate, the rather sneaky king, then ordered that a secret balcony to be built under an arch. In this way, his lover could attend events at the Plaza Mayor and remain out of sight.

Upon the birth of her son in 1629, La Calderona lost the custody of him despite her protests. Her relationship to the king ended the same year. There were rumors at the time that her son was fathered by Ramiro Pérez de Guzmán. La Calderona was forced to become a nun against her will. Felipe IV ordered her entry into the monastery of San Juan Bautista of Valfermoso de las Monjas, in Alcarria, where the interpreter would lose contact with life, the theater, her son. In 1642, the King recognized Juan José officially as his son, and Juan José began his life's career as a military representative of his father's interests.

It was said that she died in closing, already under the name of Mrs. Maria de San Gabriel, Abbess. But it has also been written that she fled: that she managed, on the one hand, to escape from God's mandate and escape, along with a bandit, to the Sierra de la Calderona (Valencia) and, in another version, that she returned to Madrid, where she would welcome the guild of actors: « A kind of union that gave relief to interpreters who were in poor condition or who were already older. There seems to be data that helped her. Which would mean that she did not die in the convent as they officially said ».

The few concrete data of María Inés Calderón have served to increase the legend. Also regarding her family. It is not uncommon to find references to Pedro Calderón de la Barca as father of the creature. But far from it. It seems that, being very small, appeared at the door of Juan Calderón, a lender of the theater world and father of Juana, also an actress, although not as renowned as «La Calderona».

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[cabiiefilms05]

[roehenstart]

Felipe IV a Caballo. Por Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo.

[belongstocaptaindoyle]

Gabino Diego as Philip IV (part I)

[flash56-chase05]

Uno de los hechos históricos que más gracia me hacen de Felipe IV es que llegó a prohibir por mandato real que los hombres llevasen la lechuguilla al cuello el 11 de febrero de 1623.

Y me resulta aún más gracioso el pensar que probablemente España se sintiese aliviado con tal medida. No es para menos; imaginaos pasar de un simple cuello a una gorguera con lechuguilla moderada (Carlos I) —que al principio era reconfortante—, y de ahí a una gorguera con cuello alto con una pequeña lechuguilla (Felipe II) hasta la locura de lechuguilla (Felipe III) en la que, si se distraía, le comía la barbilla.

Creo que el impacto es mayor con imágenes.

Aunque en la imagen es Isabel de Portugal quien lleva la gorguera con una lechuguilla moderada, casi inapreciable.

Felipe II, en 1565. La gorguera se encuentra oculta, dejando solo ver la lechuguilla.

La locura máxima... A lo largo de todo su reinado.

Y después esto, el llamado cuello golilla. En otros retratos de Felipe IV, más mayor, se le puede ver con el cuello valona.

Como curiosidad, Felipe IV lo hizo para reflejar esa lucha contra la corrupción del reinado anterior —vamos, el Rey de las buenas ideas que terminaron mal, como Alfonso XIII—, y huir de las tendencias que exportaba Francia, volviendo a refugiarse en la sobriedad.

De hecho, la lechuguilla llegaba a costar a doscientos reales, mientras que la golilla rondaba los cuatro.

[eopederson]

Escultura de Felipe IV, Plaza de Oriente, Madrid, 2016.

Philip IV’s reign (1621-1665) was something of a disaster for Spain, but this equestrian sculpture in a lovely park facing the Palacio Real is one of the great masterpieces of that genre.

[nepalsaysrawr]

This time, I’m back with another CGI makeover! It’s a young Philip IV of Spain done in the style of Pixar!

Pixar do this kind of film please I beg of you

[cparti-mkiki]

everyone give it up for old fuck monday

[little-candy-store-of-horrors]

As unrealistic as me thinking, for like one (1) ((or TWO?????)) whole years, that i was going to colour this in

[espevaro]

EL COMERCIO CON AMÉRICA EN LOS SIGLOS XVI Y XVII

EL COMERCIO CON AMÉRICA EN LOS SIGLOS XVI Y XVII

[dreamconsumer]

King Felipe IV of Spain. By Rubens.

[fotograrte]

Altar de León I (GCR, Madrid)

Los autores de esta maravilla fueron: Alessandro Algardi, que diseñó el conjunto; Pietro da Cortona y Ercole Ferrata, que realizaron el modelado; y Santi Loti y Giovanni Artusi, que fueron encargados de su fundición. Continue reading Altar de León I (GCR, Madrid)

[geohistoarte]

Felipe IV