The Female Perspective III: Queen Isabella Farnese (1692-1766)

Edited by the project curator Noelia García Pérez, Professor and Director of the Art Department at the University of Murcia.

English (also available in Spanish). Paperback with dust jacket. 12 x 17 cm. 148 pages.

This publication accompanies the exhibition The Female Perspective III: Queen Isabella Farnese (1692–1766), which will be on display at the Museo del Prado from 1 December 2025 to 24 May 2026.

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In the two previous editions (2022 and 2024), El Prado en femenino has addressed the collecting activities of these women from the late Middle Ages to 1700, starting with Isabella the Catholic and focusing particularly on the Habsburgs, among whom we find such prominent figures as Mary of Hungary and Isabella Clara Eugenia. With this third edition, we begin a new century, the 18th, and a new dynasty, the Bourbons, focusing on Queen Isabel de Farnesio (Parma, 1692-Aranjuez, 1766), the second wife of Philip V, without whom the Prado Museum would be very different from what we know today, given the quantity and variety of masterpieces in its galleries that bear her mark (the Farnese fleur-de-lis), testimony to her sophistication but also to her autonomy from the collecting interests of her royal husband.

ISBN English: 978-84-8480-644-8