The copy of Pallas and Arachne was then painted into the background of the scene in Las Meninas, which would go on to be one of the most recognized and analyzed canvases in the history of western art. Velázquez positioned Mazo's copy of Pallas and Arachne behind him during his composition of Las Meninas, which he paired with another painting about different contest of the arts between gods and mortals ( Apollo as Victor over Pan). Rubens's Pallas and Arachne was copied by Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo, the Spanish Baroque painter and son-in-law of Diego Velázquez. In the background of the canvas hangs a partially-visible tapestry of Titian's The Rape of Europa which, according to Ovid's version of the story, was the theme of the tapestry woven by Athena during the contest with Arachne. In the original myth, Athena challenges Arachne and loses, but Athena punishes Arachne anyway for insulting the gods by not recognizing the divine source of Athena's artistic skill and for creating a more beautiful work than her own. The painting depicts the story from Ovid's Metamorphoses of the weaving contest between the god Athena and the mortal Arachne.
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It was a study for one of the series of paintings Rubens and his workshop painted for the Torre de la Parada, which is now lost. Pallas and Arachne ( German: Pallas und Arachne), also known as Minerva Punishing Arachne and occasionally referred to as Arachne Punished by Pallas, is an oil-on-board oil study by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens completed in 1636 or 1637.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1958-present Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
1636-37 painting by Peter Paul Rubens Pallas and Arachne
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