"Reading the Fate of the Christ Child"

Óbidos often created very shallow scenes as a "strategy" to hide the fact that she was not very skilled in perspective. At the same time, however, this compositional choice serves to push the figures closer together, thereby increasing the sense of intimacy and emotional warmth that she was already so skilled at depicting in her figures' facial expressions. Obidos successfully infused this work with her enormous talent and inspiration The scene is overflowing with unrivaled tenderness and warmth.
In addition to being a decorative element, the column "s a strong iconographic element as a Christological symbol and as an image of faith which she used in other religious works.

As for her inclusion of a still life scene of fruit and flowers, no doubt inspired by the Flemish works she so admired, and serving here as a testament to her skill as a still life painter, the fruit has symbolic meaning, with the ensemble indicating the abundance and prosperity of fortune, the melon representing wisdom, and the apple linking to the idea of Mary as the New Eve, conceived without sin and destined to redeem humanity from the faults of the primitive Eve.