Possessing Strangeness:

Don Fernando

and

Jusepe de Ribera's Bearded Lady

© Deborah Feller

May 15, 2017

Figure 1: Jusepe de Ribera,

Magdalena Ventura with Husband

and Child (The Bearded Woman)

(1631, oil on canvas, 196 x 127

cm). Palacio Lerma, Fundación

Casa Ducal de Medinaceli,

Toledo.

Figure 2: Casa de Pilatos, Courtyard

Entrance (renovations completed ca.

1617). Seville.

Fernando Afán de Ribera,

Third Duke of Alcalá

ranked as one of

the most cultivated

nobles in Spain

Figure 3:

Figure 5: Casa de Pilatos, different sections.

Figure 4: Casa de Pilatos, aerial view.

Figure 6: Pacheco Room (Camarín

Grande), Casa de Pilatos, Seville.Figure 7: Francesco Pacheco, Ceiling

of the Camarín Grande, Casa de

Pilatos (1604), Seville.

Figure 8: Francesco Pacheco, The

Apotheosis of Hercules (1604,

tempera on canvas). Casa de Pilatos,

Seville.

Figure 5: Casa de Pilatos, different sections.

Figure 4: Casa de Pilatos, aerial view.

Figure 9: Juan Sánchez Cotán, Brígida del

Río, la barbuda de Peñaranda (1560, oil

on canvas, 102 x 61 cm). Museo del

Prado, Madrid.

Figure 10: Ivory Horn (Oliphant), Southern Italy (11th–12th centuries, mount--early

17th century, 34 x 64 cm). Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Ontario.

Figure 11: Judeo-Arabic Astrolabe (ca.

1300, brass with silver, Catalonia). Photo

© D. Feller.

Figure 12: Arabic Astrolabe

(1073, Andalucia, gilded brass).

Photo © D. Feller

Figure 13: Lacrimatorios. Glass vessels for collecting mourners' tears.

Figure 14: Ivory gunpowder horn, ca. 1570, Italy.

Figure 15: Jusepe de Ribera,

Christ Being Prepared for the

Cross (ca. 1626, oil on canvas).

Church of Santa María de

Cogolludo, Spain.

Figure 16: Jusepe de Ribera, Philosopher (1631, oil

on canvas, 129 x 91 cm). University of Arizona Art

Museum, Tucson.

Figure 17: Jusepe de Ribera, Heraclitus

(1629-31, oil on canvas, 125 x 95 cm).

Christie's, New York.

Figure 18: Jusepe de Ribera, Democritus (1630,

oil on canvas, 125 x 81 cm). Museo del Prado,

Madrid.

Figure 19: Jusepe de Ribera, Archimedes (ca.

1630, oil on canvas, 118 x 94 cm). Museo del

Prado, Madrid.

Figure 20: Francesco Imperato, Historia natural de Ferrante Imperator, Naples

(1599, engraving).

Figure 16: Jusepe de Ribera, Philosopher (1631, oil

on canvas, 129 x 91 cm). University of Arizona Art

Museum, Tucson.

Figure 17: Jusepe de Ribera, Heraclitus

(1629-31, oil on canvas, 125 x 95 cm).

Christie's, New York.

Figure 21: Andrea del Sarto, Sacrifice

of Abraham (1527/29, oil on panel,

208.28 x 159.08). Gemäldegalerie Alte

Meister, Dresden.

Figure 22: Walnut and

ebony desk with

tortoiseshell and engraved,

tinted bone (first half of

17th century, Spain).

Figure 18: Jusepe de Ribera, Democritus (1630,

oil on canvas, 125 x 81 cm). Museo del Prado,

Madrid.

Figure 19: Jusepe de Ribera, Archimedes (ca.

1630, oil on canvas, 118 x 94 cm). Museo del

Prado, Madrid.

Figure 23: Casa de Pilatos, Main Courtyard.