#iberia

ancient bear mask worn in Bielsa, Spain during carneval.

Dá Licença Hotel in Estremoz, Portugal

Jardim Botânico, Lisboa

Juan García Martínez [Spanish. 1828 - 1895]
La Penitente. 1884

Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta [Spanish. 1841 - 1920]
The Love Letter. 19th century

Arthur Hacker [English. 1858 - 1919]
A female nude at her toilet. 1918

Jules Jean-Baptiste Dehaussy [French. 1812 - 1891]
Portrait of a Young Woman. 19th Century

Laurence Alma-Tadema [English. 1836 - 1912]
The Baths of Caracalla. 1899
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In this specific painting, the scene depicts a reconstruction of the baths of the Roman Emperor Caracalla (176-217), which was imagined by Alma Tadema, and can still be found in Rome. His paintings were also based on his archaeological photographs and travels.

Lawrence Alma Tadema’s work was inspired by the civilizations of Greek, Rome and Ancient Egypt. He imagined the daily lives of these civilizations with their architectural ruins and came up with detailed compositions with exact accuracy.

Master of Affligem [Netherlandish. c. 1480 - c.1520]
Philip the Fair and Joan the Mad. c. 1495 - 1506

Maximilian I was supported in his struggle against France by England and Spain; in the latter case, the alliance was to be consolidated with a marriage. Although the widower Maximilian initially wanted to marry a Spanish princess himself, the royal house of Spain expressed a preference for the younger generation. In 1496 there was a double wedding: the children of Ferdinand and Isabella, Joan (Juana) of Castile and Aragon and her brother Don John (Juan), Prince of Asturias, were married to Maximilian’s children Philip and Margaret of Austria.

The marriages were thus not part of some cleverly conceived Habsburg strategy for acquiring the Spanish throne but, rather, a means of strengthening an alliance: the Austrians and the Spanish were to join forces in order to drive the French out of Italy and each take a share of the peninsula for themselves. However, the double wedding was followed by a sequence of strokes of good fortune that favoured the Habsburg cause: not only did Margaret’s new husband Don John die but so did all the other Spanish royal heirs, putting Joanna and her husband Philip first in line for the throne. In 1500, furthermore, they consolidated their claim to the succession by producing a son, the future Emperor Charles V, so that when Philip became King of Castile in 1504, Spain and all its possessions fell into Habsburg hands.

Only a few years later, however, Philip died, after which Joanna is said to have lost her mind – thus going down into history as Joanna the Mad – and was in any case not capable of governing. In 1506 her young son Charles was named as Philip’s successor; his grandfather Maximilian took measures to guarantee that the young boy would indeed one day accede to the throne. So it was that in 1516, as a result of a sequence of accidents, Charles became king in Spain, Naples and Sicily, and the Spanish colonies.- Read more on habsburger.net.

Paul Delaroche [French. 1797 - 1856]
Central portion of “L'Hémicycle des Beaux-arts” c.1841-42
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The center figure with the laurel wreaths is an allegory of the arts, the woman in green is an allegory of medieval art, the woman in red sitting next to her is an allegory of ancient Greek art, directly across from her is a male figure that is an allegory of ancient Roman art, and next to him is a woman in red who is an allegory of the Renaissance. The other figures from left to right are: Germain Pilon, Pierre Puget, Giambologna, Ictinos, Apelle, Phidias, Philibert Delorme, Baldassarre Peruzzi and Erwin von Steinbach.

Juan Pantoja de la Cruz [Spanish. 1553 - 1608]
La Reina Isabel de Borbón. c. 1620

classicalmonuments:

Mausoleum of Pozo Moro 

Pozo Moro, Iberia, Spain

6th century BCE

10 m. high

The Mausoleum was found in pieces in an Iberian necropolis, strewn over a 12 x 12 m. The Mausoleum, which was erected by an Iberian king around 500 BCE, is the oldest known Iberian grave monument. The find spots of the rectangular blocks enabled an accurate reconstruction of the structure, which must have been about 10 metres high and have stood atop a three-level square pedestal 3.65 m wide. Four stone lions stood on the corners of the mausoleum, whose walls were decorated with reliefs depicting deities. These sculptures belong to the orientalising phase of Iberian art and are heavily influenced by Hittite and Syrian art

Hamilcar Barca or Barcas (ca. 275 BC – 228 BC) was a Carthaginian general and statesman, leader of the Barcid family, and father of Hannibal, Hasdrubal and Mago. He allegedly founded the city of Barcino (currently named Barcelona) while he was on Hispania. In eight years by force of arms and diplomacy Hamilcar secured an extensive territory in Hispania, but his premature death in battle of Ilici (228 BC) denied Carthage a complete conquest.

Mapa histórico y geográfico de los reinos de la península ibérica, en el Atlas historique de Henri Abraham Chatelain (1705 a 1739).