Back Cover: María Isabel de Braganza como Fundadora del Museo del Prado (1829). Oil on canvas by Bernardo López Piquer (1799-1874). Image uploaded to Wikimedia Commons on 9 March 2012. Public domain (image modified). [Link to image at Wikimedia Commons].

These exquisite paintings of Elisabeth of France, Queen of Spain (1602-1644) and Maria Isabel of Braganza, Queen of Spain (1797-1818) are among the thousands of masterpieces housed in the world-renowned Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid.

Like many royals, Elisabeth had multiple identities, and was also known as Isabel of Bourbon and additionally held the title of Queen of Portugal. At age 13, she was married to a 10-year-old groom, the future Philip IV, King of Spain and Philip III, King of Portugal. While extravagant portraits depict a life of splendor for Elisabeth, of her ten children, five died in infancy and three were lost to miscarriage. Following Elisabeth's death, Philip married his 14-year-old niece, Mariana (Maria Anna) of Austria, the next Queen of Spain.

Maria Isabel, also known as Maria Isabel of Portugal, was married at age 19 to her 32-year-old uncle, Ferdinand VII, King of Spain. A painter and aficionado of fine arts, she encouraged Ferdinand to create a royal museum. In this portrait, she gestures to structural plans and a building that would one day house the museum. Maria Isabel had two children, one who died in infancy and one who died during a difficult birth that also led to her own death, one year before the opening of the royal museum—the now-famous Museo del Prado.

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Alistair Hattingh earned his Ph.D. in Latin American History from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his research focus is twentieth-century Argentina. He is an Associate Professor of History at Muskingum University in New Concord, Ohio, where he teaches classes on colonial and modern Latin America, Latin American film, the Cold War, and Modern Africa.

Karen Dunak earned her Ph.D. in U.S. History from Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author of As Long as We Both Shall Love: The White Wedding in Postwar America (NYU Press, 2013) and Our Jackie: Public Claims on a Private Life (NYU Press, 2024), and co-author of Of the People: A History of the United States, published by Oxford University Press. She is a Professor of History and Arthur G. and Eloise Barnes Cole Chair of American History at Muskingum University in New Concord, Ohio, where she teaches classes on modern U.S. History.

Kristin Dutcher Mann is a Professor of History and Social Studies Education Coordinator at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. A former high school teacher, she earned her Ph.D. in History at Northern Arizona University. She is the author of a book, articles, and book chapters on music, dance, and material culture in the mission communities of Northern New Spain.

Nancy McLoughlin (Ph.D. in Medieval European History, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005), author of Jean Gerson and Gender: Rhetoric and Politics in Fifteenth-Century France (Palgrave, 2015), is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, where she teaches both lower- and upper-division undergraduate courses on medieval European history, including the lower-division general education course on premodern European queens, which inspired her article. She is currently researching the intersection of gender and crusade in late medieval thought.

Katrina Yeaw is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She received her Ph.D. in Modern Middle Eastern and North African History from Georgetown University in 2018. She teaches survey courses on world history, historical methods, gender, and modern Middle Eastern history. She is currently developing a course entitled "Jinns, Ghouls, and Ghosts" on the history of the supernatural in the Middle East.