This artist created official court portraits of the Spanish Habsburgs during the late 1500s. Their painting *Anna of Austria, Fourth Wife of Philip II of Spain* shows the queen in stiff black silk over stiff white ruffs, stiff silver threads woven through her sleeves, and a room where every object looks bolted down. Court portraiture of this era treated clothes and posture like armor. Tap *Anna of Austria, Fourth Wife of Philip II of Spain* inside the app to zoom in and inspect the silver threads one by one.
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