Arachné s’est pendue devant son métier ; transformée en toile d’araignée à un arbre · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Arachné s’est pendue devant son métier ; transformée en toile d’araignée à un arbre
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Colophon
Description: Arachne is pictured hanging herself in a noose after losing a weaving contest to Pallas Athena. She could not handle the defeat, so decided to end her life. In the background there is a tree with a net on it – nets are something she is known to have created. Arachne hanging from a rope is symbolic of the way spiders hang on thread.
Image Creator: Master of the Cleres Femmes of the Duke of Berry (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19821
Language: fre
Source Name: Livre des Femmes Nobles et Renommées
Parent Collection: 1403 Paris; 1403 Paris
Image: mta_19821_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Nets; Arachne; Weaving; Suicide; Hanging; Pallas; Spider