Ritratto di Philip Herbert, IV conte di Pembroke, della sua seconda moglie Lady Anne Clifford, XIV baronessa di Clifford, e dei figli superstiti del suo primo matrimonio, insieme a Lady Mary Villiers

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Ritratto di Philip Herbert, IV conte di Pembroke, della sua seconda moglie Lady Anne Clifford, XIV baronessa di Clifford, e dei figli superstiti del suo primo matrimonio, insieme a Lady Mary Villiers


Dettagli

Anno
1635
Tecnica
olio su tela
Tipo
dipinto
Dimensioni
330 × 510 cm

La storia

In 1635 the court of Charles I was at its most gilded, and Van Dyck was the man who made it look that way. This group portrait is the largest painting he ever made, almost seventeen feet across, and a room was built to hold it: the Double Cube at Wilton House, whose Palladian proportions Inigo Jones laid out in these same years. Ten figures stand just over life size. At the centre is the betrothal of the earl's son to Lady Mary Villiers, daughter of the assassinated Duke of Buckingham. Within a decade the sitter, Philip Herbert, Lord Chamberlain to the King, would break with Charles and side with Parliament in the civil war.

Ritratto di Philip Herbert, IV conte di Pembroke, della sua seconda moglie Lady Anne Clifford, XIV baronessa di Clifford, e dei figli superstiti del suo primo matrimonio, insieme a Lady Mary Villiers — Anton van Dyck — MuseScope