Monsters and Critics

Knightfall: What really happened to the Knights Templar on Friday the 13th?

In Episode 7 of Knightfall Season 2, a trial began regarding the Knights Templar and the charges laid against them by King Philip IV of France (Ed Stoppard). This trial occurred on Friday the 13th, ...
Monsters and Critics

History Channel’s Knightfall Season 2 finale, Episode 8 Recap: King Philip continues to fight the Knights Templar

Welcome to the recap for Episode 8 of History Channel’s Knightfall, which also happens to be the Season 2 finale episode. Episode 7 of Knightfall saw Landry (Tom Cullen) and the other captured Knights ...
Artnet

A Royal Portrait by Diego Velázquez Heads to Auction for the First Time in Half a Century

A full-length portrait painted by Spanish painter Diego Velázquez of Queen Isabel de Borbón, the wife of Spain’s King Philip IV, is expected to fetch $35 million when it heads to auction at Sotheby’s ...
Los Angeles Times

Velázquez’s Queen Mariana portrait is a whiz-bang spectacle on view in Pasadena

Madrid’s Prado Museum has loaned a monumental 1653 Diego Velázquez painting to the Norton Simon Museum. At 14, Mariana married her uncle, Spain’s King Philip IV, then 44. The theatrical portrait has ...