A vertically narrow rectangular still life painting of fruits and vegetables on a wood or stone surface. At left on a plate is a cardoon in front of a pear. In front of the plate, sitting directly on the surface, is a slice of lemon or orange and a couple of carrots with fronts still attached. At right is fruit (oranges?) in a bowl lined with a white cloth that spills out from the bowl onto the table. The cloth is edged with semi-circles of lace. There are little white flowers on stems sprinkled through the vegetable and fruits.

Still Life with Fruit, Cardoon & Carrots, c. 1680, by #JosefaDeÓbidos (#JosefaDeAyalaFigueira; Portuguese, ca. 1630–1684), baptized #otd, Feb 20. Held by the Embassy of Portugal to the USA; source, exh catalog, host.nxt.blackbaud.com/registration...

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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.

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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.

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 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.

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

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

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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.

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...

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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

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