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Diego Velázquez · c. 1657

Las Hilanderas (The Spinners)

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Velázquez's late masterpiece — Madrid spinners working in the foreground while the myth of Athena and Arachne unfolds in a tapestry beyond. Hidden mythology in a workshop, painted with sublime atmospheric light.

Up to 14 × 10 in · landscape

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Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

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Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

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The story of Las Hilanderas (The Spinners)

Las Hilanderas is a painting by the Spanish painter Diego Velázquez, in the Museo del Prado of Madrid, Spain. It is also known by the title The Fable of Arachne. Most scholars regard it as a late work by the artist, dating from 1657 to 1658, but some argue that it was done c. 1644-48. Velázquez scholar Jonathan Brown writes that Las Hilanderas and Las Meninas are arguably Velázquez's "two greatest paintings.... [T]hey are the largest, most complicated compositions executed between 1640 and 1660, a period during which Velázquez painted mostly portraits of single figures".

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Diego Velázquez

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was a Spanish Baroque painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age. He is generally considered one of the greatest artists in the history of Western art.

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