Algunas novedades sobre las «Mujeres Ilustres» del palacio del Marqués de San Adrián (Los Magallos y los Soria, dos linajes en el Renacimi... [Some news about the «illustrious women» of the palace of the Marquis of San Adrián (the Magallons and the Sorias, two lineages in the Navarrian Renaissance)]

Abstract

One of the few programs of «Illustrious Women» in the Spanish Renaissance is that displayed by the paintings that decorate, like a frieze, the staircase in the palace of the Marquis of San Adrian in Tudela. That painting shows twelve women of ancient mythology and Greco-Roman history and legend, as we reported a few years ago. Recent documental findings and new studies have improved our knowledge of such an important painting complex regarding its relationship with several members of the Magallon family, who built the palace, and about the marriage in 1571 of Pedro de Magallon and Villalon to the Tudela born lady Laura Soria, from a family that had close relations with Italy. We also have been able to gather many details about the program’s sources, both textual and visual, which appear to have been inspired by Raphael’s sketches for the Minerva and Virtues engraved by Marcantonio Raimondi.