Equestrian Portrait of Charles V [SEP] creator
Equestrian Portrait of Charles V
Equestrian Portrait of Charles V (also Emperor Charles V on Horseback or Charles V at Mühlberg) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Titian. Created between April and September 1548 while Titian was at the imperial court of Augsburg, it is a tribute to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, following his victory in the April 1547 Battle of Mühlberg against the Protestant armies.
The portrait in part gains its impact by its directness and sense of contained power: the
his Grandsons", the "Portrait of Pietro Aretino" of the Pitti Palace, the "Portrait of Isabella of Portugal" (Madrid), and the series of Emperor Charles V of the same museum, the "Charles V with a Greyhound" (1533), and especially the "Equestrian Portrait of Charles V" (1548), an equestrian picture in a symphony of purples. This state portrait of Charles V (1548) at the Battle of Mühlberg established a new genre, that of the grand equestrian portrait