Today I want to discuss a much-requested topic – we’re going to be looking at the, frankly, tragic life of Juana of Castile

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Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):

“The madness of Joanna of Castile” by Lorenzo Vallés (1866). Held by the Museo del Prado.

Portrait of Isabella I of Castile by Peter de Hooch (c.1490). Held by the Museo del Prado.

Portrait of Ferdinand II of Aragon, after Michiel Sittow (late 15th / early 16th century). Held by the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna.

“The Capitulation of Granada” by Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz (1882). Held by the Senate of Spain.

Portrait of Isabel de Trastámara by an unknown artist (16th century). Held by the Convento de las Huelgas Reales de Burgos.

Detail from “The Virgin of the Catholic Monarchs” by an unknown artist (1491-1493). Held by the Museo del Prado.

Portrait of Juana I of Castile by the Master of Affligem (c.1500). Held by the National Sculpture Museum.

Stained-glass window in the High Chapel of the Church of Saint Mary of Victory (Batalha Monastery, Leiria, Portugal), attributed to Francisco Henriques (c.1510-1513). It depicts Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal in prayer, with her daughters.

Portrait of a girl, probably Catherine of Aragon, by Juan de Flandes (c.1496). Held by the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum.

Illumination showing the Catholic Monarchs and the Infanta Juana from the ”Rhyme of the conquest of Granada", by Pedro Marcuello (15th century). Held by Bibliothèque du Château (Chantilly, France)

Detail from a triptych showng Archduke Charles, the later Holy Roman Emperor Charles V., with his sisters Eleonore and Isabella attributed to Meister der St. Georgsgilde (1502). Held by the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien.

The children of Philip and Juana on horseback by Jan van Nieulandt (c.1521-1526). From [ Ссылка ]

“Philip the Fair” and ”Joan the Mad” in the gardens of the castle of Brussels by the Master of Affligem (c.1495-1506). Held by the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.

Portrait of Isabella I of Castile by Juan de Flandes (c.1500-1504). Held by the Royal Palace of Madrid.

Portrait of Philip the Fair by Juan de Flandes (c. 1496-1500). Held by the Kunsthistorisches Museum.

Portrait of King Henry VII by an unknown Netherlandish artist (c.1505). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

“Joan the Mad waiting for the resurrection of her husband Philip the Fair by Charles de Steuben (1836). Held by the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille.

“Queen Joan the Mad” by Gabriel Maureta Aracil (c.1858). Held by the Museo del Prado.

“Juana the Mad Holding Vigil over the Coffin of Her Late Husband, Philip the Handsome” by Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz (1877). Held by the Museo del Prado.

Portrait of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor by Bernard van Orley (c.1515-1516). Held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.


Quoted texts:

Gillian B. Fleming, Juana I: Legitimacy and Conflict in Sixteenth-Century Castile. Germany: Springer International Publishing, 2018.

Bethany Aram, “Queen Juana: Legend and History” in Juana of Castile: History and Myth of the Mad Queen. United Kingdom: Bucknell University Press, 2008.


Also consulted, were:

Other relevant entries from The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online.

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