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.

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Carmen Ripollés

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.

She has published in numerous art history and visual culture journals, including Renaissance Quarterly and the Boletín del Museo del Prado. Her latest book, Josefa de Óbidos, is the first English monograph on the Portuguese artist and is part of the Lund Humphries/Getty series “Illuminating Women Artists: Renaissance and Baroque.”

Patrick Lenaghan

An internationally acclaimed scholar, Patrick Lenaghan 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. Dr. Lenaghan has organized 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 (Luisa Roldán. Escultora Real, Pedro de Mena Granatensis Malacae, and Art in Spain and the Hispanic World: Essays in Honor of Jonathan Brown). Dr. Lenaghan has also studied the history of the Hispanic Society collection, particularly its sculpture and its relation to Seville (Madrider Mitteilungen, José Gestoso y Sevilla, Visiones de España). In 2018, Dr. Lenaghan was named a corresponding member of the Real Academia de Sta. Isabel de Hungría in Seville, delivering his discurso de ingreso on March 17, 2018. Goya has featured consistently in Dr. Lenaghan’s work at the museum from acquisitions to publications and exhibitions. He has published on the artist’s graphic works, including in From Goya to Picasso: A Century of Spanish Printmaking, catalogue entries for Tesoros de la Hispanic Society of America, and an extended review of Nigel Glendinning’s Goya y sus críticos (y otros ensayos).