1.
Possessing Strangeness:
Don Fernando
and
Jusepe de Ribera's Bearded Lady
© Deborah Feller
May 15, 2017

2.
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.

3.
Fernando Afán de Ribera,
Third Duke of Alcalá
ranked as one of
the most cultivated
nobles in Spain
Figure 3:

4.
Figure 5: Casa de Pilatos, different sections.
Figure 4: Casa de Pilatos, aerial view.

5.
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.

6.
Figure 5: Casa de Pilatos, different sections.
Figure 4: Casa de Pilatos, aerial view.

7.
Figure 9: Juan Sánchez Cotán, Brígida del
Río, la barbuda de Peñaranda (1560, oil
on canvas, 102 x 61 cm). Museo del
Prado, Madrid.

8.
Figure 10: Ivory Horn (Oliphant), Southern Italy (11th–12th centuries, mount--early
17th century, 34 x 64 cm). Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Ontario.

9.
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

10.
Figure 13: Lacrimatorios. Glass vessels for collecting mourners' tears.

11.
Figure 14: Ivory gunpowder horn, ca. 1570, Italy.

12.
Figure 15: Jusepe de Ribera,
Christ Being Prepared for the
Cross (ca. 1626, oil on canvas).
Church of Santa María de
Cogolludo, Spain.

13.
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.

14.
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.

15.
Figure 20: Francesco Imperato, Historia natural de Ferrante Imperator, Naples
(1599, engraving).

16.
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.

17.
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).

18.
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.

19.
Figure 23: Casa de Pilatos, Main Courtyard.