The Portrait Between the Spanish Monarchy and the Kingdom of England in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

Emma Luisa Cahill Marrón had a BA in History and a MA in Spanish Monarchy in the Early Modern period. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Murcia, where she will soon defend her doctoral thesis titled The Artistic and Cultural Patronage of Queen Catherine of Aragon in Tudor England. Her main research focuses are the role played by Queen Catherine of Aragon introducing Renaissance and Humanism into the Tudor court and the artistic and cultural exchanges between the courts of the Spanish Monarchy and the Kingdom of England. She has carried out research stays at University College London (2014) and the University of Minnesota (2021). Her publications include articles in journals such as Titivillus and Atalaya, and contributions to books such as El Imperio de las Hispanias de Trajano a Carlos V: Clasicismo y poder en el arte español (Bolonia University Press, 2014), and Isabel la Católica y sus hijas: El patronazgo artístico de las últimas Trastámara (Editum, 2020). She has forthcoming chapter in the collective work Mujer y Retrato en el Renacimiento: Usos, funciones y formas de exhibición (Sílex, 2022), where she analyzes the gender element and Hispanic component in the portrait collections of King Henry VIII and Queen Catherine of Aragon. Since 2019, she has been the Coordinator of the Art, Power, and Gender Conference at the University of Murcia. Since 2022, she has been the International Outreach Coordinator for this research initiative focused on female artistic patronage in the Early Modern period. She is also a member of the MICINN MEFER project on Portrait Medals and Female Power in Renaissance Europe (I): The Women of the Spanish Monarchy (2021-2024).