Felipe_IV_offers_Ferdinand_to_Glory.jpg
Size of this preview:
494 × 600 pixels
.
Other resolutions:
198 × 240 pixels
|
395 × 480 pixels
|
632 × 768 pixels
|
843 × 1,024 pixels
|
2,512 × 3,051 pixels
.
Titian : Philip II offering the Infante don Fernando to the Heavens | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q47551
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Title |
label QS:Les,"
Felipe II ofreciendo al cielo al infante don Fernando
"
label QS:Len,"
Philip II offering Don Fernando to Victory
"
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre | allegory | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
Español:
La obra representa al rey
Felipe II de España
(1527-1598) ofreciendo al Cielo a su hijo, el infante
Fernando de Austria
(1571-1578), aunque la obra no sólo conmemora el nacimiento de dicho infante sino también la victoria de las tropas cristianas en la
batalla de Lepanto
, que se libró en 1571.
English:
Titian,
Following Victory at Lepanto, Felipe II offers Prince Fernando to Heaven
, 1572-1575, oil on canvas, 335 × 274 cm
Philip II offering Fernando to Victory.
Museo del Prado
, Madrid.
Painted by Titian in his nineties, this allegorical work celebrates the victory of a Catholic coalition over the Ottoman Turks at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571 and the birth shortly afterwards of a male heir to King Philip II of Spain , Don Fernando, which were both seen as signs of God's favour. The battle is shown in the background, and a bound and defeated Turk at Philip's feet. An angel descends from heaven bearing a palm branch with a motto for Fernando, who is held up by Philip: " Majora tibi " (may you achieve greater deeds). Titian died in 1576 and Prince Fernando in 1578. Lepanto effectively ended Ottoman ambitions in the western Mediterranean. (Reference: Robert Enggass and Jonathan Brown, Italian and Spanish Art, 1600–1750: Sources and Documents , Evanston: IL: Northwestern University Press, 1992, ISBN 0810110652 , p. 213. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Depicted people | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
between circa 1573 and circa 1575
date QS:P571,+1573-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1573-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1575-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium |
oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions |
height: 335 cm (10.9 ft); width: 274 cm (107.8 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,335U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,274U174728
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q160112
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Accession number |
P00431
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
References | [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Authority file |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | Unknown source Unknown source | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission
( Reusing this file ) |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other versions |