The latest issue of the journal ARS (Art Research Centre of the Slovak Academy of Sciences) edited by Ingrid Ciulisová, is dedicated to Mary of Habsburg, sister of Emperor Charles V, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, and later Governor of the Low Countries, better known as Mary of Hungary (1505 - 1558). The issue stems from a research project that primarily focused on Mary´s collecting activities, while also exploring her diverse interests, including contemporary intellectual and spiritual matters, art, diplomacy, and military affairs. Mary´s life story transcends our national borders and links several present-day European countries. Consequently, the issue is truly international, featuring contributions by authors from Spain, Portugal, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain and the United States, and spotlighting Mary of Hungary´s connections with present-day Slovakia, Bratislava and the mining towns she once owned and managed as Queen of Hungary.

Content

Ingrid Ciulisová
Editorial / Editoriál
https://doi.org/10.31577/ars-2026-0001

Larry Silver
Mary of Hungary: Patron of Distinction
https://doi.org/10.31577/ars-2026-0002

Charles Hope
Mary of Hungary and Titian
https://doi.org/10.31577/ars-2026-0003

Walter Cupperi
Mary of Hungary’s Small Portraits: The Difficult Quest for Female Patronage
https://doi.org/10.31577/ars-2026-0004

Annemarie Jordan Gschwend
Empire in Portrait: Mary of Hungary’s “Grande Galerie” and the Transimperial Crafting of Habsburg Identity
https://doi.org/10.31577/ars-2026-0005

Ingrid Ciulisová
Mary of Hungary and Binche Palace: Strategic Collecting and the Politics of Display
https://doi.org/10.31577/ars-2026-0006

José Luis Gonzalo Sánchez-Molero
Militia and Architecture in the Library of Queen Mary of Hungary
https://doi.org/10.31577/ars-2026-0007

Maxim Hoffman
Gift-Giving and the Political Agency of Mary of Hungary during her Governorship in the Low Countries (1531 – 1555)
https://doi.org/10.31577/ars-2026-0008

Maxim Hoffman
The 1555 Testament and Codicil of Queen Mary of Hungary
https://doi.org/10.31577/ars-2026-0009

Reviews

Július Barczi
Klenoty času – Slovenská moderna zo súkromných zbierok. Krátka úvaha o zbieraní diel výtvarnej moderny Slovenska
https://doi.org/10.31577/ars-2026-0010

Martin Štefánik
Rotes Gold. Das Wunder von Herrengrund
https://doi.org/10.31577/ars-2026-0011

Veronika Kucharská
Plody sváru. Obraz osmanskej prítomnosti (Reflexie k výstavnému projektu)
https://doi.org/10.31577/ars-2026-0012

Full text of the issue: https://www.sav.sk/journals/uploads/issue/06241609ars2026-1_CELE_WEB.pdf