Download or read book Rubens, Velázquez, and the King of Spain written by Dr Aneta Georgievska-Shine and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing the decorative mythological imagery of the hunting lodge of King Philip IV of Spain, this study illuminates the dialogical nature of a painted program, designed largely by Peter Paul Rubens, and supplemented by Diego Velázquez. Careful examination of surviving images in their broader intellectual context reveals their literary, rhetorical, and philosophical underpinnings, and elucidates the complementary perspectives of these two great artists.