‎Pierson Peter‎
‎Philip II of Spain‎

‎Sublime Truth and the Senses: Titian's Poesie for King Philip II of Spain‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2019 Hardback, iv + 232 pages, Size:220 x 280 mm, Illustrations:71 b/w, 77 col., Languages: English, Italian, Latin. ISBN 9781909400276.‎

‎Summary The paintings for Philip II, known as the Poesie, are among the most frequently discussed works of art that address a favored Renaissance theme, the influence of the pagan gods on human actions. The commission is traceable to 1549, when Emperor Charles V summoned the artist to Augsburg following Prince Philip's triumphal parade through the empire as his father's heir apparent. The cycle that took shape comprises Danae and Venus and Adonis (Madrid, Prado); Diana and Actaeon and Diana and Callisto (Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland); Perseus and Andromeda (London, Wallace Collection) and Europa (Boston, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum). These masterpieces of the artist's mature period can be considered the most important Renaissance grouping of mythological paintings executed by a single artist. The author proposes that Philip's expected elevation prompted the commission and that the subjects form a cohesive program of Hapsburg ethical views and political concerns, and that Titian created new visual idioms to represent the complex issues which the subjects address in part by engaging themes with a significant prior history in family patronage. While Titian's Poesie for Philip II are well known monuments of western culture, they have never before been investigated with this focus. The dispersal of the pictures' in the seventeenth century resulted in a scholarly focus on the single pictures and a concentration on their sensual aspects. In Aretino, a Venetian dialogue on painting, Titian's friend and apologist Lodovico Dolce is a spokesman for art that following poetry, entices through beauty, while hiding important truths beneath the veil of allegory. This study analyzes the ways in which Titian incorporates new concepts of sensuality and spirituality in a Venetian vernacular to create masterpieces whose originality and ravishing beauty belie their didactic content.‎

‎Philip II of Spain.‎

‎Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1964. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 318 pages - quelques planches en noir et blanc - quelques cartes en noir et blanc hors texte - livre en anglais - jaquette conservée.. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon‎

‎ Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon‎

‎King of Two Worlds Philip II of Spain‎

‎ 0 London, Collins, 1974 25,5 x 19 cm, 240 pp Good condition ‎

‎First published, dreen hardcover, dust-jacket, illustrations. ‎

‎Philip II of Spain.‎

‎2. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1963, in-8°, 318 pp, index, orange publisher's cloth (no dustwrapper).‎

‎Prescott W.H. The history of the reign of Philip II King of Spain. In Russian (‎

‎Prescott W.H. The history of the reign of Philip II King of Spain. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Preskott. U.Kh. Istoriya tsarstvovaniya Filippa Vtorogo korolya ispanskogo. Short description: In Russian (ask us if in doubt).The author of this work is the famous American historian William Hickling Prescott (1796-1859). As is well known it is the story of Philip II Prescott's reign that inspired F.M. Dostoyevsky to write the famous parable of the Karamazov Brothers the Great Inquisitor. The author presents the story of Philip II (1527-1598) the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V not only the political events of his biography but also tries to portray the life of the Spanish King in its entirety. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb00903ee537f9a686‎