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1 ‘Women of Distinction: Margaret of York and Margaret of Austria’ (Turnhout and London, 2005).
2 See an overview of Habsburg women as power players and cultural mediators (1500–1600) in Annemarie Jordan Gschwend, ‘Mujeres mecenas de la casa de Austria y la infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia’, El arte en la corte de los Archiduques Alberto de Austria e Isabel Clara Eugenia (1598-1633): un reino imaginado (Madrid, 1999), pp. 118-38.
3 A book series on Portuguese queens (some Habsburg princesses) has been edited in Lisbon since 2011 by Isabel dos Guimarães Sá, Manuela Santos Silva and Ana Maria Rodrigues. Consult: http://rainhasdeportugal.blogspot.ch.
4 For Juana and Maria of Austria, daughters of Charles V, see A. Jordan Gschwend, ‘Las dos águilas del emperador Carlos V. Las colecciones y el mecenazgo de Juana y María de Austria en la corte de Felipe II’, La monarquia de Felipe II a debate, Luis Ribot García, ed. (Valladolid, 2000), pp. 429-72; Ibid, ‘Los retratos de Juana de Austria posteriores a 1554: la imagen de una Princesa de Portugal, una Regente de España y una jesuita’, Reales Sitios: Revista del Patrimonio Nacional, 151 (2002), pp. 42-65; Ibid, ‘Cosa veramente di gran stupore. Entrada Real y fiestas nupciales de Juana de Austria en Lisboa en 1552’, El legado de Borgoña. Fiesta y ceremonia cortesana en la Europa de los Austrias (1454-1648), Krista de Jonge, Bernardo García García and Alicia Esteban Estríngana, eds. (Madrid 2010), pp. 179-240.
5 For Habsburg queens and their patronage at the Valois court, for instance Eleonora of Austria who married François I, see the volume edited by Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier, Patronnes et mécènes en France à la Renaissance (Paris, 2007). Also Ibid, ‘Art patronage and women (including Habsburg) in the orbit of King Francis I’, Renaissance Studies, 16, (2002), pp. 475-524; and A. Jordan Gschwend, ‘Antoine Trouvéon, un portraitiste de Leonor d'Autriche récemment découvert’, Revue de l'Art, 159 (2008), pp. 11-19.
6 Paula Fichtner, ‘Dynastic Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Habsburg Diplomacy and Statecraft: An Interdisciplinary Approach’, American Historical Review, 81 (1976), pp. 243-65.
7 José Luis Gonzalo Sánchez-Molero, Regia Bibliotheca. El Libro en la Corte Española de Carlos V (2 vols., Mérida, 2005).
8 Among others, Elías Tormo y Monzó, Luis Fernández Retana, María Angeles Toajas Roger, Ana García Sanz, Leticia Sánchez Hernández, Fernando Checa, Eleanor Goodman, Magdalena Sánchez, Paulino Capedón Verdú, Karen María Vilacoba Ramos and Tess Knighton, the latter historians covering topics from architecture to music and liturgy at the Descalzas Reales.
9 See the recent paper on the queen's quarters in the Alcázar, albeit with misinterpretations, by Catherine Wilkinson Zerner, ‘Living Arrangements of the Spanish Habsburgs from Charles V to Philip IV’, Le prince, la princesse et leurs logis. Manières d'habiter dans l’élite aristocratique européenne (1400-1700). Actes des septièmes Rencontres d'architecture européenne, Paris, 27-30 juin 2011, Monique Chatenet and Krista de Jonge, eds, (Paris, 2014), pp. 125-40.
10 Consult https://www.museodelprado.es/coleccion/obra-de-arte/la-reina-isabel-de-valois-tercera-esposa-de/4bf43b3b-a3cf-44ef-aaf8-928b4ca51e0b?searchid=7cc3d62a-97b3-8fe2-48df-1a9707b1cd22 [accessed 15 January 2016].
11 1548, Museo Nacional del Prado.
12 1551 and 1560 respectively, Museo Nacional del Prado.
13 The essays by Barbara Welzel on this topic were not cited, especially, ‘Die Macht der Witwen: Zum Selbstverständnis niederländischer Statthalterinnen’, Das Frauenzimmer, Jan Hirschbiegel und Werner Paravicini, eds, (Stuttgart, 2000), pp. 287-309.
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Annemarie Jordan Gschwend
Dr Annemarie Jordan Gschwend is a Research Scholar with the Centro de História d'Aquém e d'Além-Mar (CHAM) in Lisbon and Switzerland, since 2010. She obtained her PhD in 1994 from Brown University with a dissertation on the court, household and collection of Catherine of Austria, queen of Portugal (1507–1578). Her areas of specialisation include patronage, collecting, menageries and Kunstkammers at the Renaissance courts in Spain, Portugal, Austria and the Spanish Netherlands. Her monographs include Retrato de Corte em Portugal. O legado de António Moro (1552–1572) (Lisbon, 1994); The Story of Süleyman. Celebrity Elephants and other Exotica in Renaissance Portugal (Zurich, 2010); and Catarina de Áustria. A rainha colecionadora (Lisbon, 2012). She is co-editor (with Kate Lowe) of the recent book, The Global City. On the Streets of Renaissance Lisbon (London, 2015).