Philip IV in Armour

Philip IV in Armour, a portrait of the period around 1628, over-painted and cut to its present size at a later date, probably was executed after the portrait of the king in parade armour painted around 1623, by Juan Bautista Maino. This picture by Philip’s Italian-trained drawing master also shows the subject in a lifelike attitude, but the modelling of the face in Vel�zquez’s portrait is much more expressive, and its extrovert clarity shows up more impressively in contrast to the sash draped decoratively over the armour and painted in many shades of red.