Orgullo de Aracne · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Orgullo de Aracne
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Colophon; Turkey; Ancient Greece
Description: This image refers to the story of Arachne and Minerva. Arachne was a skilled weaver and she said that she was a better weaver than the goddess Minerva. Minerva, angered by the hubris spoken against her, challenged Arachne to a weaving contest. When Minerva won the contest, she transformed Arachne into a spider. This image depicts the transformed Arachne in the shape of a spider on a web. There are also cloths with embroideries on them to show the importance of weaving and spinning in this tale.
Image Creator: D. José Assensio (Engraver)
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:24975
Language: spa
Source Name: Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio, Traducidos al Castellano con Algunas Notas Para su Inteligencia, Por Don Francisco Crivell [Metamorphoses or Transformations of Ovid, Translated into Castilian with Notes for your Intelligence, By Don Francisco Crivell]
Parent Collection: Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio Traducidos al Castellano. Engravings by D. Jose Assensio (1809)
Image: mta_24975_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Minerva; Arachne; Weaving; Hubris; Mythology; Transformation; Spiders