Philip was still a prince. His father, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, had been Titian’s most powerful patron and a close confidante. But Charles would die in 1558, and Philip was in line to ...

King Charles has revealed his last conversation with dad, Prince Philip, noting his morbid sense of humour and emotional last ...

His patron, Philip, was both a devout Catholic and a womanizer, commissioning religious paintings as well as the mythological series. At the start, Titian offered the young prince what he wanted ...

What emerged from this encounter between Prince Philip of Spain and the Renaissance master Titian is seen as one of the most extraordinary commissions in all of art history. Given almost total ...

Titian (Italian, about 1488–1576) and Workshop, “Prince Philip of Spain” (1549–1550), oil on canvas, 40 9/16 x 32 5/16 inches. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid (P000452) The Gardner Museum ...

which is probably where Titian first painted him. Yet another pope, Paul IV, made him archbishop of Milan at the end of 1556. But the appointment, approved by Spain’s King Phillip II ...

Sotheby's will headline its London Old Master evening sale on 7 December with a painting that it describes as the "most important" work by Titian to ... former owners are Prince Eugene of Savoy ...