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Felipe III ( 1578-1621)

Philip III, called  “el Piadoso” king of Spain and Portugal, born in 1578, was son of Philip II and of Ana of Austria, daughter of the emperor Maximiliano II. Of weak and melancholy character, while his father was living he was the one who was submitting it to a regime of austere life. In 1598 it married with the archduchess Margarita of Austria. His reign supposed a transition between the height of Carlos I and Philip II.Fan of the theatre, of the painting and, especially, to the hunt, delegated the matters of government in hands of his valid one, the duke of Lerma, who, in turn, delegated in his valid personal Rodrigo Calderón; for influence of the duke, the Spanish court moved temporarily to Valladolid (1601), returning then to Madrid (1606). He died in Madrid, el31 of March, 1621.

                  Felipe III

Felipe IV (1605-1665)

 Philip IV of Austria ó Absburgo, called the king planet, was born in Valladolid in 1605, he was a son of Philip III and of the princess Margarita of Austria. He inherited the throne to the death of his father when you upset tape-worm sixteen years. It was during all his life more interested in spectacles and amusements that in the matters of the kingdom, fault that I inherit from his father. He was a king of Spain from March 31 de1621 up to his death and of Portugal from the same date until December, 1640. His reign of 44 years and 170 days it was the longest .

                 Felipe IV

Carlos III (1661-1700)

Carlos III of Borbón, was a duque of Parma, when Philip IV died, was admitted successor to the throne his son Carlos II, who was counting then with only four years of age. Of rachitic and sickly nature, the new monarch spent a long and sad infancy. In spite of it, his noble character and his religious piety, I enjoy a great popularity. Between 1731 and 1735, king of Naples and king of Sicily, from 1734 to 1759 of Spain from 1759 up to his death. Carlos was the third son male of Philip V, who came to the adult life and the first one that had with his second wife, Isabel de Farnesio, for what there were his average brothers Luís I and Fernando VI, who happened to his father in the first moment. The death without descent of these would lead Carlos to occupying the Spanish Throne

                Carlos III

Contrarreforma

Concilio  de Trento: was an ecumenical council of the Catholic Roman Church developed in discontinuous periods during 25 meetings, between the year 1545 and 1563. There took place in Trent, a city of the north of the current Italy, which at the time was a free city been ruled by a prince - bishop.

Grandes pintores de la  historia de España

Jose Ribera

Jose de Ribera  and Cuco, painter and recording Spanish of the 17th century, who developed all his career in Italy and principally in Naples. Due to his low stature and to that it was claiming his origins signing his works as “Jusepe de Ribera”

It cultivated a naturalistic style that colourist evolved of Caravaggio's tenebrismo towards one more aesthetics and luminous.

Ribera is a painter distinguished from the Spanish school, though his work was done entirely in Italy and of fact, there are not known sure examples of his beginnings in Spain. Labelled in long time as a horrifying and shaded creator, mainly for some of his paintings of martyrdoms.

          

Figura emblematica del siglo XVII: Diego Velásquez y Silva.

Diego Velásquez:

Diego Rodríguez de Silva and Velázquez (Seville, June 5 of 15991 - Madrid, August 6, 1660), known as Diego Velázquez, was a baroque painter, considered one of the maximum exponents of the Spanish painting and teacher of the universal painting.

It happened his first years in Seville, where it developed a naturalistic style of lighting tenebrista, for influence of Caravaggio and his followers. At the age of 24 it moved to Madrid, where he was nominated a painter of the king Philip IV and four years later it was promoted to painter of chamber, the most important post between the painters of the court. To this labor he dedicated the rest of his life. His work was consisting of painting portraits of the king and of his family. The presence in the court allowed him to study the royal collection of painting. His catalogue consists of approximately 120 or 125 works. The recognition like universal painter took place late, towards 1850.2 It Reached his maximum reputation between 1880 and 1920.