Includes the monograph ‘Representing reginality in 17th century Europe. Images, discourse, identities’ coordinated by Alejandra Franganillo (UCM) and Peter Cherry (Trinity College, Ireland).

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 years.