Rosemarie Mulcahy

Rosemarie Mulcahy ( Scully; 3 April 1942 – 5 September 2012) was an Irish academic and author who specialised in 16th and 17th century Spanish art and the Spanish Renaissance. She taught undergraduate modules on Spanish art at the University College Dublin from 1989 to 2003 along with authoring books, essays, magazine articles and scholarly catalogues on the subject.

Biography She was born Rosemarie Scully on 3 April 1942 in Ireland. Growing up in a family with a strong presence in religious art, Mulcahy worked as a model for the Spanish courtier Pedro Rodríguez in Madrid, before working for Balmain in Paris in the early 1960s. In 2001, Juan Carlos I of Spain presented Mulcahy with the Officer's Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic to recognise "her outstanding contribution to the study of Spanish art and culture." She died suddenly in Dublin on 5 September 2012. The Rosemarie Mulcahy Scholarship for the Study of Spanish Art was established in her honour by Trinity College Dublin and the Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica.