Keynote speakers

M. J. Rodríguez-Salgado

M.J. Rodríguez-Salgado has a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Durham and a PhD from the University of Hull. She started teaching at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland in 1979. She later taught at the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and in 1985 she joined the International History Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science in London where she obtained the Professorship in International History in 1996. In 1988 she curated the exhibition about the Gran Armada and has collaborated in other exhibitions. The most significant publications from these projects are England, Spain, and the Gran Armada, 1585-1604 (1991), The Changing Face of Empire: Charles V, Philip II and Habsburg Authority 1551-1559 (1988), and Armada. The Official   Catalogue   of   the National   Maritime   Museum Exhibition (1988). Her extensive researching career has focused on the international relations between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries as well as various aspects of the courts of Charles V and Philip II. Furthermore, she has also published articles and book chapters centred on key female figures such as the Queen Isabel of Valois in the article "Una Perfecta Princesa" Casa y vida de la reina Isabel de Valois (1559-1568). Primera Parte’ (2003), or the governor Mary of Hungary, with her contribution on the volume Mary of Hungary. Renaissance Patron and Collector. Gender, Art, and Culture (2020).

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Kelly Helmustler di Dio

Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio is Professor of Art History and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Vermont, as well as the editor of Routledge's Visual Culture in Early Modernity series. She is a specialist in Italian and Spanish sculpture of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in state gifts, and artistic exchanges. In addition to many articles and essays, she has published books like Leone Leoni and the Status of the Artist at the End of the Renaissance (2011), Sculpture Collections in Early Modern Spain (with Rosario Coppel, 2014), Leone Leoni: Faith and Fame (with Rosario Coppel and Margarita Estella, 2013), Making and Moving Sculptures in Early Modern Italy (2015), and Artistic Circulation between Early Modern Spain and Italy (edited with Tommaso Mozzati, 2020), y Shipping Sculptures in and out of Early Modern Italy (forthcoming). Her research has been funded by fellowships from the Spanish Ministry of Arts and Culture, the Kress Foundation, the Medici Archive Project, and the Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies "Villa I Tatti. She was awarded the 2016 University of Vermont’s Kroepsch-Maurice Excellence in Teaching Award and her courses have been featured in Vermont Quarterly, UVM News, and the Center for Teaching and Learning newsletter.

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Palma Martínez-Burgos

Palma Martínez -Burgos has a PhD in Art History, and she is a Professor at the University of Castilla La Mancha in Toledo. In 1982 she was a ground-breaking scholar in the field of gender studies when she published a work in collaboration with George Duby focused on female orthodoxy, spirituality, and visual culture in the Reformation and Counterreformation during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. She has published extensively in national and international specialised journals. Some of her most outstanding projects are in the field of museography like her collaboration in Reyes y Mecenas (Toledo, 1992), Carolus (Toledo, 2000) and El Taller Del Greco (Athenas, October 2007- January 2008). She has curated the following exhibitions: Erasmo En España. La   Recepción   Del   Humanismo (Salamanca   2002), Celosías (Toledo, 2006), Dominicas, Viii Centenario (Toledo 2007-2008), and La Estela Del Milagro: El Entierro Del Señor De Orgaz (Toledo, 2014) in commemoration of the 400^th year anniversary of the birth of El Greco. Between 2008 and 2009 she coordinated the inventory of textiles in the Cathedral of Toledo. In 2014 she became the President of the XX National Art History Congress (CEHA), El Greco en su IV Centenario: Patrimonio Hispánico y Diálogo Intercultural, celebrated in Toledo overseeing as well the publication of the conference proceedings (2016). Since 2008 she is part of the Board of Trustees of the Museo Nacional de Escultura in Valladolid. She is the Head Researcher of the R+D project Toledo e Italia: relaciones artísticas de ida y vuelta en la Edad Moderna (SBPLY/19/180501/000311.).

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Paloma Otero

Paloma Otero is Chief Curator at the Numismatic and Medals Department of the Museo Arqueológico Nacional in Madrid where she has developed her professional activity since 1990. She has a BA in Geography and History, and her research has focused on ancient numismatics with special attention to Celtiberian coins in Hispania in this museum’s collection. She has documented the history and worked on the dissemination of the coins in this collection since the creation of the Royal Library in 1711. Her most recent articles have been published in the Boletín del Museo Arquelógico Nacional, and are “Vitrina CERO: ¡Falso! Una historia de engaño, arte y codicia” (2022), “Vitrina CERO: El Tesoro de Valsadornín” (2020) or “Vitrina CERO: Dineros del mundo: Melanesia”. She has participated in collaborative works such as “Detrás de la imagen: apuntes para una museología de las colecciones numismáticas del Museo Arqueológico Nacional” (2020). She has coordinated the publication of the proceedings of the XIII International Numismatic Conference.

Márta Pallag

Márta Pallag is curator of the medal collection of the Magyae Menzetu Múseum, in Hungary, since 2020. She has a degree in Art History by the University of ELTE that she obtained in 2007 and during her extensive academic and professional career in this field, she has made great efforts to study numismatic and medals. As a result of her research, she has published plenty o articles and book chapters such as “The unique Medal of Emperor Ferdinand I.” (2019), “The Medal of the recapture of Esztergom in 1595” (2018), “A Szent Liga megalakulásának (1684) emlékére vert nürnbergi érem” (2013), “The Numismatic World in the Long 19th Century. The Delhaes collection” (2022), “Szent László ábrázolása emlékérmeken” (2019) and “Delhaes István éremgyűjteménye” (2019).

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Alejandro Vergara Sharp

Alejandro Vergara Sharp is Head of Conservation of Flemish and Northern European paintings until 1700 at the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid. In 1992 he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in History and Geography with the specialization in Art History. In 1994 he obtained a PhD in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts in New York with a dissertation focused on Rubens. He taught Art History at the University of California and Columbia University become becoming a curator at the Prado Museum in 1999. He is a specialist in Rubens’ painting production and in sixteenth century Flemish art and has done extensive research on Netherlandish paintings from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.   He   has    curated    numerous    exhibitions    in    the    Prado    Museum like Rubens. Dibujos para el retrato ecuestre del duque de Lerma (2001), Vermeer y el interior holandés (2003), Pedro Pablo Rubens. La   historia   de   Aquiles (2003- 2004), Rubens. La Adoración de los Magos (2004) Patinir (2007), Rembrant. Pintor de Historias (2008), Rubens (2010), El   joven   Van   Dyck (with   Friso   Lammertse, 2012), Rubens.   El    Triunfo    de    la    Eucaristía (2014), El    arte    de    Clara Peeters (2016), Rubens. Pintor de bocetos (with Friso Lammertse, 2018), and Velázquez, Rembrandt, Vermeer. Miradas afines (2019). Prior to this, he curated El arte en la corte de los archiduques Alberto de Austria e Isabel Clara Eugenia (1598-1633). Un reino imaginado, held at the Royal Palace of Madrid (1999-2000).

Ana García Sanz

on Patrimonio Nacional, being the chief director of two monasteries, Las Descalzas Reales de Madrid, and Santa Clara de Tordesillas, as well as of the royal collection of carpets. Regarding this position, she has worked on the inventory and cataloguing of the artistic collection, the design of exhibitions and other projects, the edition of texts and the curation and dissemination of the collections. She also invests part of her time in scholar activities, collaborating with many universities, foundations, cultural institutions, and other museums, as well as paying attention to the access of scholars to the collections of Patrimonio Nacional. Her academic publications focus on the museums and collections that she has investigated and curated in her career, highlighting the ones dedicated to Las Descalzas Reales and the figure of Juana of Austria, such as the book Las Descalzas Reales. Orígenes de una comunidad religiosa en el siglo XVI (2010) or the articles "Los tapices de la Eucaristía. Función y ubicación en el Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales" (2014), “Jeanne d’Autriche fondatriche des Dëchaussées royales de Madrid” (2016), and “A Personal Project: The Founding of Madrid's Descalzas Reales” (2021).

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Miguel Ángel Bunes Ibarra

Miguel Ángel de Bunes Ibarra is a research professor at the Instituto de Historia of the CSIC, where he works on the Mediterranean relations of the Hispanic monarchy, the Maghreb and the Ottoman Empire, as well as on the chronicles and minorities of the period. He has been a member of the Turkish Academy of History since 2010 and of the Royal Spanish Academy of History since 2014. Due to the topics he has developed in his research career, as well as the constant publication of unpublished sources on Mediterranean history of the 16th and 17th centuries, his works are continuously cited and referenced in the field of Mediterranean history, as well as for his works published directly in Turkish and the other languages of this region, which amount to 39 monographs, 134 book chapters and 94 articles in scientific journals throughout his research career. The list of publications has included both research works and the editing of sources and chronicles, works that are fully annotated and have been used by other researchers to initiate avenues of research. Among his latest published books are "Política de Felipe III en el Mediterráeo. 1598-1621" (2021), "Tunisia 1535, Voices of a European Campaign" (2017), "The Ottoman Empire; 1451-1807" (2015), "Diego de Galán, Relación del cautiverio y trabajos de Diego Galán, natural de Consuegra y vecino de Toledo" (2011) and "Sir Anthony Sherley, Peso de todo el mundo (1622); Discurso sobre el aumento de esta monarquía (1625)" (2010).

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Emma Cahill Marrón

Emma Luisa Cahill Marrón has a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Cantabria, and a Master of Arts in Spanish Monarchy in the Modern Age from the University of Cantabria and the Autonomous University in Madrid. In 2022 she obtained a PhD in Art History from the University of Murcia. She has published extensively about the artistic and cultural relations between the Spanish Monarchy and the Tudor dynasty. She has also focused on Catherine of Aragon’s role as agent of female change in Tudor England. In October 2022 she was awarded the BritishSpanish Society Santander Universities UK Scholarship in London. In January 2023, she organized the international seminar celebrated at the Instituto Cervantes London and the University College London “The Education of a Christian Woman (1523) in the Construction of the Image of Female Power of Queen Mary I of England (1553-1558)”. She is the International Outreach Coordinator of the Art, Power, and Gender Research Group at the University of Murcia. She is a member of the research projects “Portrait Medals and Female Power in Renaissance Europe (I): The Women in the Spanish Monarchy,” and “Power, Gender, and Representation: Female Portrait Medals in the Courts of Renaissance Europe (France, England, and Scotland).” She is currently preparing the publication of the PhD dissertation as well as a new cultural and artistic biography of Catherine of Aragon.