Las Hilanderas

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Las Hilanderas is a celebrated Baroque painting by Diego Velázquez that depicts women working in a tapestry workshop while subtly referencing classical mythology.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Baroque painting
oil painting
painting
artForm painting
artist Diego Velázquez
artStyle Baroque naturalism
basedOn classical mythology
myth of Arachne
collection Prado Museum
surface form: Museo del Prado
countryOfOrigin Spain
creator Diego Velázquez
depicts Arachne
Minerva
spinners
tapestry workshop
weavers
women working in a tapestry workshop
depictsWork tapestry after Titian’s Rape of Europa (in background)
genre genre painting
mythological painting
hasPart background mythological scene
foreground scene of working women
inception 1650s
circa 1657
languageOfTitle Spanish
locatedIn Madrid
Spain
location Prado Museum
surface form: Museo del Prado
materialUsed oil paint
movement Baroque
notableWorkOf Diego Velázquez
partOf Spanish Baroque painting
period Spanish Golden Age
significance important example of Baroque mythological genre painting
one of Velázquez's late masterpieces
support canvas
theme artistic creation
competition between mortal and goddess
labor
myth and reality
title Las Hilanderas self-link
The Spinners
usesPerspective deep spatial recession
usesTechnique chiaroscuro
complex spatial composition

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Diego Velázquez notableWork Las Hilanderas
Las Hilanderas title Las Hilanderas self-link