Join us for an insightful conversation with Dr. Carmen Ripollés and Hispanic Society curator Dr. Patrick Lenaghan focusing on the work of Josefa de Óbidos and Luisa Roldán, two of the most important women working as artists in the Iberian Peninsula during the 17th century. The program celebrates the recent publication of Josefa de Óbidos by Dr. Ripolles, part of the Getty’s series Illuminating Women Artists and the first English-language monograph about the pioneering Portuguese painter.

Carmen Ripollés is a professor of art history at the Schnitzer School of Art, Art History, and Design at Portland State University (Portland, Oregon). She completed her bachelor’s degree in art history at the University of Valencia (Spain), and her master’s and PhD in art history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on the art of the Iberian World during the early modern period, with emphasis on early modern artistic theory, notions of artistic identity, and material culture.

Patrick Lenaghan is an internationally acclaimed scholar, who received his B.A. from Columbia University and his Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, N.Y.U. He has worked at The Hispanic Society since 1995 as Head of the Department of Prints and Photographs.  organizing  numerous exhibitions, including Gilded Figures (2021) and Picasso and the Spanish Classics (2023) at the Hispanic Society and Imágenes del Quijote at the Museo Nacional del Prado. He has written widely on Spanish Renaissance and Baroque sculpture (. In 2018, Dr. Lenaghan was named a corresponding member of the Real Academia de Sta. Isabel de Hungría in Seville.