The Spinners

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The Spinners is a celebrated 17th-century painting by Diego Velázquez that depicts women working in a tapestry workshop, renowned for its complex composition and exploration of myth and reality.

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instanceOf oil painting
painting
artHistoricalPeriod Spanish Golden Age NERFINISHED
artist Diego Velázquez NERFINISHED
basedOn myth of Arachne from Ovid's Metamorphoses
catalogCode Museo del Prado P001173 NERFINISHED
collection Museo del Prado NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Spain
creator Diego Velázquez NERFINISHED
dateOfCreation circa 1655–1660
depicts Arachne NERFINISHED
goddess Athena (Minerva) NERFINISHED
myth of Arachne
spinners NERFINISHED
tapestry making
weavers
women working in a tapestry workshop
genre genre painting
history painting
mythological painting
hasPart background mythological scene
foreground workshop scene
hasTheme artistic competition
punishment of hubris
relationship between art and reality
status of manual labor and craft
inception c. 1657
influencedBy Italian art
languageOfTitle Spanish
locatedIn Madrid
locatedInCountry Spain NERFINISHED
location Museo del Prado NERFINISHED
materialUsed oil paint
movement Baroque
notableFor complex composition
exploration of myth and reality
illusionistic space
multi-layered narrative
use of light and shadow
owner Spanish state NERFINISHED
partOf Velázquez’s late works
pictorialTechnique loose, painterly brushwork
strong chiaroscuro
significantPlaceIn canon of Western art
support canvas
title Las hilanderas NERFINISHED
The Spinners NERFINISHED
The Spinners or The Fable of Arachne NERFINISHED

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Las Hilanderas title The Spinners