The young queen, who had recently recovered from the birth of her first child with King Philip IV, gazes out with a somber, almost inscrutable expression, somewhat at odds with the spirited ...

King Philip IV of Spain, 1644 Philip IV also called the Planet King was King of Spain from 1621 to his death 1665. Philip is remembered for his patronage of the arts, including such artists as Diego ...

Beside Mari-Bárbola is the Italian midget Nicolasito Pertusato, who is waking up, or teasing, the dozing mastiff. In the shadows behind Doña Isabel stands a court lady, Marcella de Ulloa, in a nun’s ...

Philip IV (Spanish ... the Planet King (Spanish: Rey Planeta), was King of Spain from 1621 to his death and (as Philip III) King of Portugal from 1621 to 1640. Philip is remembered for his patronage ...

Philip IV was in trouble. Spain’s far-flung empire, arguably the world’s most powerful, had seriously wobbled in the 1640s — and so had the king’s family life. When the bloody Thirty Years ...