Representing the queen. The image of the Spanish Habsburgs in their European context

Abstract

Until very recently, the studies that have dealt with portraits of royal women in the Hapsburg period have been confined to the reigns of Charles V and Philip II . The seventeenth century has received much less attention, focusing in most cases on the authors of these portraits and the image of the monarch, and there is still little work on the image of female sovereigns, although this has been changing in recent times.