# Portrait of Philip the Handsome [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [JUAN DE FLANDES]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on wood, 36 x 26 cm ## Commentary The portraits of Joan the Mad and Philip the Handsome were painted on the occasion of their marriage. The paintings shows the capabilities of the artist in the genre of portrait, the only subject permitted beside religious themes in Catholic Spain. Queen Juana I of Castile \(1479-1555\) is generally known as "Joan the Mad". Despite her nickname, Juana's "madness" has often been disputed; she may have been locked up for political reasons only. Either way, she was a passionate woman, who fell madly in love with her handsome husband and continued to caress him even after his death. At the age of 16, Juana was betrothed to Philip the Handsome of Austria \(1478-1506\), only son of the Emperor Maximilian I, and they married in 1496 in the Low Countries. ## Related artworks - [Capture of Christ]() - [Carrying the Cross]() - [Christ and the Canaanite Woman]() - [Christ and the Woman of Samaria]() - [Christ Appearing to His Mother]() - [Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalen]() - [Christ Nailed to the Cross]() - [Herodias' Revenge]() - [Pentecost]() - [Portrait of an Infanta]() - [Portrait of Joan the Mad]() - [Resurrection of Lazarus]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()