Art, Travel, and Exchange between Iberia and Global Geographies, c. 1400–1550

Costanza Beltrami, Ph.D. (2020), Courtauld Institute of Art, is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Stockholm. Her research focuses on gothic architecture in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. Recent publications include ‘Memory, Modernity, and Anachronism at the Convent of San Juan de Los Reyes, Toledo’, in Lateness and Modernity in Medieval Architecture, edited by Alice Isabella Sullivan and Kyle G. Sweeney (Brill, 2023).Sylvia Alvares-Correa, Ph.D. (2023), University of Oxford, is Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church College, Oxford. Her research focuses on cultural exchange between the Netherlands and Portugal in the 15th and early 16th centuries. Recent publications include ‘Crusading in a Lisbon Convent: The Making and Meaning of The Passion of Christ in Jerusalem (Lisbon, ca. 1500)’, Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, 15/2 (2023).

“Taken as a whole, this volume represents a monumental undertaking in understanding the reach and connections that Iberia had during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Considering the movement of artists first, then the movement of objects, and finally less traditional ways of thinking about and analyzing artistic exchange, the volume offers a thoughtful and well-researched exploration of artistic connections.”Emily D. Kelley in The Medieval Review, 26.04.01 (https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/43221)“The volume succeeds in its aim to transcend narratives confined to formalistic analysis. It does so by repositioning art historical inquiry within a broader global framework – prompting a reassessment of the discipline’s methods and a re-evaluation of its questions – that reflects Iberia’s role in the Early Modern world.”Caterina Fioravanti in The Burlington Magazine 168:1476 (March 2026), pp. 283–284)‘The editorial organization of the volume is another of its strengths. The chapters are thoughtfully grouped, and complementary essays work together to paint a complex portrait of artistic movement into and out of the Iberian world. Costanza Beltrami and Sylvia Alvares-Correa’s Introduction is excellent, bringing these diffuse studies together into a coherent whole. This volume is immediately accessible to scholars unfamiliar with scholarship on late-medieval Iberia, with succinct interrogations of many pressing historiographic concepts such as composite monarchies, polycentrism, and shifting definitions of Iberia. As one would hope in a book about art and exchange, the volume is beautifully illustrated and includes maps, and other images that help the reader to better understand the entangled geographies under discussion.”Kai R. Werner in Terrae Incognitae: The Journal of the Society for the History of Discoveries (2025)

• AcknowledgementsList of Maps and FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Rethinking Artistic Mobilities in the Iberian WorldCostanza Beltrami and Sylvia Alvares-CorreaPart 1: Travelling Artists1 Recomposing and Reframing the Northern European Influence in Aragonese Painting, c.1400: The Unsettled Case of Marçal de SasEncarna Montero Tortajada2 ‘In the Spanish Fashion’: Iberian Artists Travelling in Italy, 1400–1550Piers Baker-Bates3 Travelling Stonemasons and the Architectural Cultural Exchange between Spain, Mexico, and Peru in the 16th Century: Connections and Paths of the Toribio de Alcaraz FamilyMarco SilvestriPart 2: Material Culture on the Move4 Portable Passion: The Adaptation of Martin Schongauer’s Engraved Inventions in Aragon and CastileNelleke de Vries5 Travelling Images: Illustrations in the First Printed Story on TroyMaría Sanz Julián6 Travelling Models in the Iberian Marian Atlas: Pathos and Consensus between the Flemish Mediterranean Networks and the Viceroyalty of New SpainMaria Vittoria Spissu7 Lavish Tableware Consumption in Portugal and Early Imports of Ming Porcelain, 1499–1557Luís Urbano Afonso8 The Azulejo as a Poetic of Ornament: Dissemination, Adaptation, and Fusion of Models in Iberian Compositions (16th Century)Céline Ventura TeixeiraPart 3: Beyond Movement9 All Saints Hospital in Lisbon: Artistic Exchanges in the Context of Hospital Architecture during the RenaissanceJoana Balsa de Pinho10 Travelling Artists and Local Elites in the Caribbean: Architecture in Santo Domingo in the Early 16th CenturyElena Paulino Montero11 The Itinerancy of Jan van Eyck’s Models: (Re-)Creating Images of Power in Late Medieval Catalonia and BeyondEva March12 Travelling Masterpieces from Flanders to Portugal: Jorge Afonso’s Portuguese ‘Copy’ of Quentin Metsys’s Apparition of the Angel to Saints Clare, Agnes, and ColetteVanessa Antunes, António Candeias, Sara Valadas, Ana Cardoso, Maria J. Francisco, Alexandra Lauw, Marta Manso, Fernando A. B. Pereira, and Maria L. Carvalho13 A Composite Female Saint from Juan de Flandes’s Altarpiece for the University Chapel in SalamancaBart Fransen, Steven Saverwyns, and Armelle WeitzIndex