1st Edition
Portraiture, Gender, and Power in Sixteenth-Century Art Creating and Promoting the Public Image of Early Modern Women
Part 1 Creating the Image of Women in Power
1. Bronzino’s Portrait of Eleonora di Toledo with Her Son Giovanni: The Invention of a Secular Icon for the Early Modern State
Bruce Edelstein
2. Portrayals of Catherine de’ Medici at the Granducal Medici Court
Sheila Ffolliott
3. Medals, Cameos, and Miniatures: Small Format Female Portraits at the Court of Philip II
Almudena Pérez de Tudela Gabaldón
4. The Failure to Construct a Visual Image of Gendered Power: Anthonis Mor’s Portrait of Mary I, Queen of England, in the Prado
Joanna Woods-Marsden
Part 2 Uses, Functions, and Ways of Displaying
5. Portrait Galleries for the House of Habsburg in the Low Countries: Margaret of Austria in Mechelen and Mary of Hungary in Brussels
Dagmar Eichberger
6. Captive in a Portrait Gallery: Titian’s Portraits of John Frederick I of Saxony (c. 1548 and c. 1551) and the Collection of Mary of Austria, Queen of Hungary
M. J. Rodríguez Salgado
7. "So They May Beseech God on His Behalf": Devotion, Courtly Pomp, and Dynastic Presence in the Portrait Collections of Juana of Austria, Princess of Portugal, and Maria of Austria in the Monastery of Las Descalzas Reales in Madrid
Fernando Checa Cremades
8. The Portrait Gallery of Mencía de Mendoza, Marquise of Zenete
Miguel Falomir Faus and Noelia García Pérez
9. Maria de Mendoza, Portraits, and the Negotiation of Memory: The Display of Her Painting Collection in the Cobos-Mendoza Palace in Valladolid
Sergio Ramiro Ramírez
Biography
Noelia García Pérez is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Murcia, Spain.
