La Reina Habsburgo Early Modern Representations of Majesty in the Portraits of Margarita of Austria, Isobel of Bourbon and Marianna of Austria

Katty Garcia
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2020
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Spain
Period: 17th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation primarily addresses the pictorial means by which female royal portraits of the Spanish Golden Age convey the sitter’s condition of majesty. It looks at the portraits of three queens: first, Queen Margarita of Austria, then Queen Isabel of Bourbon, and lastly Queen Mariana of Austria. While analysing these portraits, it considers factors such as the sitters’ attires, their surroundings and the socio-historical context in which these paintings were executed, including the meanings that the imagery would have communicated to the early modern viewer. To achieve this, a brief introduction is included to outline the conventions of early modern royal portraiture in Spain and the contemporarary visual means by which the monachy asserted their royal status. This will be followed by three chapters which will examine portraits of chosen sitters.

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La Reina Habsburgo Early Modern Representations of Majesty in the Portraits of Margarita of Austria, Isobel of Bourbon and Marianna of Austria