Josefa of Ayala
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The martimonio mistico of Holy Catalina
Painting ID:: 42043 new16/Josefa of Ayala-597799.jpg
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Josefa of Ayala
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1630-1684,Portuguese painter and engraver. She was the daughter of the Portuguese painter Baltazar Gomes Figueira (1597-1674) and a Spanish lady, Doea Catarina de Ayala y Cabrera. After the restoration of the Portuguese monarchy in 1640 the family moved to Coimbra. Here Josefa began her apprenticeship under her father, a painter of landscapes, still-lifes and religious works, who in 1644 painted the retable of Nossa Senhora da Graea, Coimbra, in the naturalist-tenebrist style he had learnt in Seville in the circles of Juan del Castillo, |
The martimonio mistico of Holy Catalina |
mk16 6
1647
I Wave on copper
27x37cm National Museum of
Old Art Lisbon |
Related Paintings::. | Retrato de Alfonso XII con diecisiete anos | Philip IV et | The Shore at Dosseringen | |
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