As a younger child of king philip v of spain, don luis received important religious posts, including archbishop of toledo and seville. However, his philandering led to losing these titles and banishment from the court, while he became a crucial avant-garde art patron, especially of goya. The encrustations of medals and cacophonous fabrics speak to mengs's experiments in representing status, privilege, and royal honors in the age of enlightenment, when rational skepticism began to confront absolutist, hereditary power. Object Type: painting. Genre: portrait. Date: 1771. Place of creation: Germany, 18th century. Dimensions: Framed: 180.5 x 127 x 8 cm (71 1/16 x 50 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 152.7 x 100 cm (60 1/8 x 39 3/8 in.). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art. Clevelandart 1966.14
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