Spanish Steps On 9 November 2009, a multimedia event was held on the Steps to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989; the event included the erection of replicas of parts of the wall. In the 2012 film "To Rome with Love", Hayley (Alison Pill) and Michelangelo Santoli (Flavio Parenti) met on the Spanish Steps. The Spanish Steps are featured in a scene in the 2015 film "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." The Steps are featured in numerous scenes in Alfred Bester's 1956 novel "The Stars My Destination". The Steps are featured in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1933
The Family of Philip V (1723) XV of France and Philip V of Spain. He was active at the Spanish court from 1723 and painted King Felipe V as well as his eight surviving children. Ranc was subsequently replaced by Louis Michel van Loo as court painter and it was he who painted the Spanish royal family in 1738 and 1743. Ranc's 1723 painting of Felipe V of Spain depicts his five eldest surviving children. The king is sat between his two eldest sons, Infante Luis, Prince of Asturias and Infante Fernando by his first wife Maria Luisa of Savoy. Felipe V's first wife died in