Emperor Charles V rides alone through an open landscape, lance in hand, after his 1547 victory over the Protestant forces at Mühlberg. Titian painted it at the imperial court in Augsburg in 1548, copying the actual armour and horse trappings, which survive in Madrid's Royal Armoury. Charles looks controlled and pensive rather than triumphant.
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Titian sent to Venice for red lake pigment. Its crimson glows on the sash, the plume and the horse's trappings, the colour of the Catholic cause.
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