Queen Isabella of Spain is well-known for her encouragement of Christopher Columbus’ expeditions to the New World, as well as for uniting her fractured country, transforming Spain into a world ...

Bold, strategic, and steady, Isabella of Castile navigated an unlikely rise to the throne and ushered in a golden age for Spain. Looking Like a Queen“La Virgen de la Mosca,” painted in the ...

This manuscript was illuminated by a circle of at least five highly organized manuscript painters active in the Flemish cities of Ghent and Bruges. The principal illuminator was Alexander Bening, who ...

CORRESPONDENTS. The King (Consort) of Spain is DON CARLOS DE ASSIS, husband of the reigning Queen ISABELLA, and Her Majesty's full cousin by blood.