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Still Life with Watermelon & Pears, 1670, by #JosefaDeÓbidos (#JosefaDeAyalaFigueira; Portuguese, ca. 1630–1684). Held by the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga; source, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jo... #womenartists #artherstory
A vertically rectangular still life painting of fruit on a wooden table or ledge. At the left in a shallow white bowl are chunks of cut melon with white flesh, along with two pears and some green grapes. At right is a white plate heaped high with pears. On the ledge between the two dishes are two jasmine flowers. In the left bottom corner, two figs sit on the ledge.
January 18, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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Mystical Marriage of #StCatherine, c. 1640-60, by #JosefaDeÓbidos ( #JosefaDeAyalaFigueira; #JosefaDeAyala; Portuguese, ca. 1630–1684). Held by the National Museum of Ancient Art; source, upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co... #womenartists #artherstory #FeastOfStCatherine #StCatherineofAlexandria
A painting of an interior in which three women sit or kneel gazing at the child in the lap of the woman at the far left, who wears a pink gown and blue cloak (the Virgin Mary). The woman in the middle is older (Saint Anne?). The kneeling woman at the right is richly attired; in front of her is a broken wheel, the attribute of St. Catherine of Alexandria. In the background behind the women, two angels and a man presumably St. Joseph, look on.
November 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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🇬🇧Hey everyone,I'm so happy to finally share with you that #LundHumphries invited me again to write a new review on the new titles of their beautiful series #IlluminatingWomenArtists. This time about #JosefaDeÓbidos and #MariaSibyllaMerian. I hope you enjoy the reading!
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Illuminating Women Artists’ Books – 2nd Review
Hi there, I am so excited to share this with you, I was invited, again, by Lund Humphries to make a review with my impressions on other two titles of the beautiful book series Illuminating Women Ar…
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November 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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The Transverberation of #StTeresa, 1672, by #JosefaDeÓbidos (#JosefaDeAyalaFigueira; Portuguese, ca. 1630–1684). Held by Eglise (Igreja Matriz) de Cascais; source, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jo... #artherstory #womenartists #nuntastic #FeastOfStTeresa #FeastOfTeresaOfAvila
A painting depicting the transverberation of Saint Teresa. The work depicts, at center, a woman in a brown robe with a rosary at her waist, under the traditional nun's black-and-white cloak and head covering. At the right of the painting an angel in an orange gown lifts its right arm to plunge a pointed implement into her heart; where it enters her body there are flames. Behind her and at the left of the painting, two other angels, also in orange gowns, support the woman.
October 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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📖 A must-read for anyone interested in early modern art, women artists, or the global Baroque.

#JosefaDeObidos #PortugueseBaroque #WomenInArt #NewBook #ArtHistory #BaroquePainting

(5/5)
September 19, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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New book announcement!

Josefa de Óbidos
By @cripolles.bsky.social , @portlandstate.bsky.social

Avail in UK/ROW from @lhartbooks.bsky.social:
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Avail in US/N Amer from Getty Pubs:
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Cover of North American edition of Josefa de Obidos, on which is depicted a queenly looking Madonna and a curly-haired Child with a halo and scepter, with cherubs in the background. The book title is printed sideways down the right edge of the cover. Book cover depicting a seated Madonna holding the baby Jesus in her lap. He leans forward to a kneeling woman holding his hand in both of hers, reading his palm. Two children and two women, one holding two birds (ducks or geese?) look on. The book's title is printed in black, inside a white block of color, across most of the bottom of the cover.
September 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Lactation of St. Bernard, btwn 1660 & 1670, by #JosefaDeÓbidos (#JosefaDeAyalaFigueira; #JosefaDeObidos; #JosefaDeAyala; Portuguese, ca. 1630–1684). Held by Museu Nacional Machado de Castro; source, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jo... #FeastofStBernard #artherstory #womenartists
A painting of a crowned, enthroned Madonna in a pink gown with a blue cloak, held off her shoulders by an angel on either side. She holds her bared left breast in her left hand, squirting milk at a kneeling tonsured male figure in white at the painting's lower left. (Beyond him, the faces of 4 other kneeling men are visible.) With her right hand, the Madonna holds a haloed baby Jesus on her lap, who nearly falls off as He reaches for a stalk of lily held by one of the four nuns kneeling at the painting's bottom right corner. At the bottom center of the artwork are some carpeted steps leading up to the throne. Between the tonsured male figure at left and the closest kneeling nun at right are a crozier at the side of the man, and a closed black book with two clasps at the nun's side.
August 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Still life with #watermelon and grapes, c. 1670, by #JosefaDeÓbidos (#JosefaDeAyalaFigueira; Portuguese, ca. 1630–1684). Held by Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga; source, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jo... #NationalWatermelonDay #womenartists #artherstory
A horizontally long still life painting of fruits and flowers. At the left side (as the viewer sees it) is a shallow white bowl containing pears, green grapes and watermelon split open to show white fruit and blackseeds. At the right is a white plate on which sits a pile of apples and pears. Both dishes sit on a wooden ledge. In the left bottom corner are two figs, sitting on the ledge. Between the two dishes are two white jasmine flowers.
August 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Virgin & Child, c. 1680, by #JosefaDeÓbidos (#JosefaDeAyalaFigueira; Portuguese, ca. 1630–1684), who died #otd, July 22. Held by the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga; source, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vi... #JosefaDeObidos #artherstory #womenartists
A painting of the Virgin Mary, wearing a red gown with gold trim and a blue cloak, holding the Baby Jesus in her arms. They are framed in a garland with flowers, bows, and bunches of green grapes.
July 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Ooh, that's me! Celebrating today with art by #PlautillaNelli #JosefadeObidos #ProperziadeRossi & #LaviniaFontana -
An Annunciation painting by Plautilla Nelli An Annunciation painting by Josefa de Obidos, aka Josefa de Ayala A white bas relief sculpture in the round by Properzia de'Rossi, depicting the Annunciation. An Annunciation painting by Lavinia Fontana
March 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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So far the series covers #LuisaRoldán #ArtemisiaGentileschi #RosalbaCarriera #ElisabettaSirani #LouiseMoillon #SofonisbaAnguissola #GesinaTerBorch...
And will soon include #ClaraPeeters & #EufrasiaBurlamacchi, (publishing 11 March) followed later in 2025 by #JosefaDeÓbidos & #MariaSibyllaMerian!
March 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
artherstory.bsky.social
For art lovers in or visiting the Dallas-Fort Worth area -

On Jan 30, @cripolles.bsky.social will be speaking at SMU's Meadows Museum on C17th-century Portuguese painter #JosefadeÓbidos -

"Josefa de Óbidos: A Woman Artist in Early Modern Iberia"
meadowsmuseumdallas.org/cal/lecture-...
The painting features an array of fruits, vegetables, and flowers arranged on a dark ledge. At the viewer's left is an uncut melon, above which hangs a bunch of green grapes from its vine. Next to the melon, almost in the bottom middle of the painting. Next to the fits is a tightly woven, oval-shaped light brown wicker basket with a handle full of cucumbers, small pink flowers, and some fruits. In front of the basket are two yellow and red cherries. Next to the basket, in the bottom right corner of the painting, are loose fruits: a peach, an apple and a pear still on its stem.
January 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
✨ Discover the beauty of Josefa de Óbidos' Nativity Painted in 1669, depicts St. Francis & St. Clare adoring the holy child, with Clare holding a monstrance and illuminated by divine light.

This connects to the first Nativity created by St. Francis in Greccio in 1223. 🎄💖

#JosefadeÓbidos #Nativity
December 26, 2024 at 4:00 AM
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The #Visitation, c. 1660, by #JosefaDeÓbidos (#JosefaDeAyala; Portuguese, ca. 1630–1684). Held by Gaudium Magnum Fdn. #artherstory #womenartists
The top portion of this oil on copper painting depicts the Virgin Mary & St. Elizabeth with halos—Mary stands, Elizabeth kneels as they embrace—and two men in the near background. A scroll surrounded by flowers below; the Latin text in white on a black background reads “Benedicta tu inter mulieres, benedictus fructus ventris tui.”
December 22, 2024 at 4:52 PM
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Still Life with a Basket of Cherries, Cheese & Clay Jars, 1670s, by #JosefadeÓbidos (or #JosefadeAyala Figueira; Portuguese, ca. 1630–1684). Private collection; source, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jo... #artherstory #womenartists
A food still life painting depicting a plate with a small pile of three wheels of white-rind cheese, with 2 more cheese wheels just behind; a terra cotta jog; a small terra cotta bowl; and a woven wicker basket containing red cherries.
November 24, 2024 at 9:06 PM
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St. Francis & #StClare of Assisi in Adoration of the Infant Christ, 1647, by #JosefaDeÓbidos (#JosefaDeAyala; Portuguese, ca. 1630–1684) after Gerard Seghers. Held by an art museum in Porto? Source, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jo... #FeastOfStClare #artherstory #womenartists
The painting shows St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi in adoration of the Infant Christ in the cave of nativity. The Child and the saints’ faces are well lit; the cave around them is quite dark.
August 11, 2024 at 12:19 PM
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Penitent Magdalene, 1661, by #JosefaDeÓbidos (#JosefaDeAyalaFigueira; Portuguese, ca. 1630–1684), who died #otd, July 22. Held at the Church of Santa Maria, Obidos; source, upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

#JosefaDeObidos #artherstory #womenartists #FeastOfMaryMagdalene
A tearful young woman in a purple or red gown with long curly hair sitting with a skull in her lap, cradled by her right hand. Her left elbow rests on a table or ledge; she holds her face with her left hand. On the ledge is an ointment jar; beyond the ledge is a tall cross in a landscape, backlit with orange light.
July 22, 2024 at 2:33 PM
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Mystical Marriage of St Catherine, btwn 1640 & 1660, by #JosefaDeÓbidos (#JosefaDeAyalaFigueira; #JosefaDeObidos; #JosefaDeAyala; Portuguese, ca. 1630–1684). Held by the National Museum of Ancient Art, Lisbon; source, upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co... #womenartists #artherstory
February 21, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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St John the Evangelist / São João Evangelista, 1650-60, by #JosefaDeÓbidos (#JosefaDeAyalaFigueira; #JosefaDeObidos; #JosefaDeAyala; Portuguese, ca. 1630–1684). Held by Portugal's Nat'l Museum of Ancient Art, www.matrizpix.dgpc.pt/matrizpix/Fo... #womenartists #FeastofStJohn #StJohntheEvangelist
December 27, 2023 at 2:21 PM
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The Christ Child as Pilgrim, 1676, by #JosefaDeÓbidos (#JosefaDeAyala; Portuguese, c. 1630–1684). Held in the Gaudium Magnum Collection, Maria e João Cortez de Lobão; currently on display at Baltimore Museum of Art's Making Her Mark exhibition, artbma.org/exhibition/m... #womenartists #artherstory
November 7, 2023 at 2:10 PM