Charles V

1.5. EMPEROR CHARLES V -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Son of Joan the Mad of Castille and Philip I of Habsburg "the Handsome", he was born on Feb. 24, 1500, in Ghent and died on Sept. 21, 1558, in San Jerónimo de Yuste, (Cáceres, Spain). He was the grandson of Emperor Maximilian I and Mary of Burgundy, as well as of the "Catholic Kings" Isabella I the Catholic, of Castile, and Ferdinand II the Catholic, of Aragon. After his father's death in 1506, …showed first 75 words of 4654 total…

…showed last 75 words of 4654 total…In the equestrian portrait by Titian, the Emperor is portrayed as a miles Christi in defence of Christendom under attack from within itself. In this work, the Venetian artist sums up the early chivalrous ideals of his subject à la Bourguignonne in combination with abundant references to the classical world that we have mentioned and, in this way, he creates the best résumé of an image of such complex construction as that of Charles V.