Word: lerma
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...more fleshed out sense of the court’s artistic culture.One of the most fascinating elements of the exhibit is the way it sheds light on the influences of other artistic styles on Spanish painting. Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens’ portrait of the Duke of Lerma is the only work in the exhibit not by a Spaniard. His enormous painting, which ushered in a new style of grandeur that became the hallmark of Philip’s reign, demonstrates stylistic exchange across borders. Many of the painters in Philip’s court were of Flemish...
...Spain's global empire, and that of his son Philip IV, a middling monarch but one whose court painter was Diego Velázquez. That cinched his immortality. Philip III was known for his piety, his love of luxury and his willingness to allow his chief adviser, the Duke of Lerma, to run things--not always well...