Female Baroque Artist You Should Know
Joseph Nechvatal writes: ‘Even as she was the subject of the exhibition “The Sacred and the Profane” in 1997 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, I had never heard of the Counter-Reformation Baroque (and Bodegón) painter Josefa de Óbidos (1630–1684) before a trip to Lisbon. But apparently she has had something of an inferior reputation there that this exhibition at the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga seeks to correct: the idea that she is an unusual and interesting oddity, but ultimately a provincial painter of trite and lugubrious spirituality.’ Pictured is de Obidos’s “Child Jesus Salvator Mundi.”
