Two Habsburg Women and Two Convents in the Heart of Renaissance Madrid

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1 Link: https://www.patrimonionacional.es/microsites/laotracorte/visita_virtual.html.

2 A. García Sanz and A. Jordan Gschwend, ‘Via Orientalis. Objetos del Lejano Oriente en el Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales’, Reales Sitios (1998), pp. 25-39; Jordan Gschwend, ‘The Art of Collecting among Habsburg Women. Catherine and Juana of Austria and their pursuit of luxury’, in Hugo Miguel Crespo, ed., The Art of Collecting. Lisbon, Europe and the Early Modern World (1500–1800) (Lisbon, 2019), pp. 34-53.

3 A. Jordan Gschwend, ‘The monastery I have built in this city of Madrid: Mapping Juana of Austria’s royal spaces in the Descalzas Reales Convent’, in Jeremy Roe and Jean Andrews, eds, Representing Women’s Political Identity in the Early Modern Iberian World (New York, 2020), pp. 127-45.

4 María Angeles Toajas Roger, ‘Palacios ocultos: las Descalzas Reales de Madrid’, Felix Austria. Lazos familiares, cultura política y mecenazgo artístico entre las cortes de los Habsburgo, Bernardo García García, ed. (Madrid, 2016), pp. 327-74.

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Annemarie Jordan Gschwend

Annemarie Jordan Gschwend

Annemarie Jordan Gschwend is Research Scholar with the Centro de Humanidades at the Universiade Nova in Lisbon and the author of numerous publications and exhibition catalogues on early modern Habsburg collecting, patronage and menageries, including several essays on Juana of Austria, Princess of Portugal. She recently co-edited with K.J.P. Lowe an award-winning book, The Global City. On the Streets of Renaissance Lisbon (2015).