Josefa de Óbidos
Josefa de Óbidos was a Spanish-born Portuguese painter. Her birth name was Josefa de Ayala Figueira, but she signed her work as Josefa em Óbidos or Josefa de Ayalla. All her work was executed in Portugal, her father's native country, where she lived from the age of four. Approximately 150 works of art have been attributed to Josefa de Óbidos, making her one of the most prolific Baroque artists in Portugal.
During her career, Josefa de Óbidos received many important public commissions for altarpieces and other paintings to be displayed in churches and monasteries throughout central Portugal. She was also a painter of still lifes. Among her most famous is a series of paintings of the months of the year, painted in collaboration with her father and now dispersed among various private collections; each of these paintings consists of a landscape background with a still life in the foreground, composed of the animals, fruits, and vegetables consumed in that month. While these paintings appear to be secular still lifes on the surface, they also have religious meaning and may be connected to Franciscan religiosity. Taken as a whole, these paintings represent the passage of time, the inevitability of death, and the possibility of rebirth.
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