[Arachne Weaving] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Arachne Weaving]
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Weaving; Wool Work; Nets; Minerva; Arachne
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Modern day Turkey; Colophon
Description: This illumination depicts Arachne holding a shuttle in her left hand as she sits at a loom and weaves. Arachne was a famous weaver who competed against the goddess Minerva in a weaving competition. When she lost the competition, Arachne hung herself.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19835
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1410 Paris; 1410 Paris
Image: mta_19835_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Weaving; Wool Work; Nets; Minerva; Arachne