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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.
Daniel in the Lions' Den Year c. 1614-1616 Medium oil paint, canvas Dimensions 224.2 cm (88.3 in) × 330.5 cm (130.1 in) Location National Gallery of Art Identifiers RKDimages ID: 28802 Website www.nga.gov art-object-page.50298.html [edit on Wikidata] Portrait of Rubens Daniel in the Lions' Den is a painting from around 1615 by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens which is displayed in the ...
Arachne (/ ə ˈ r æ k n iː /; from Ancient Greek: Ἀράχνη, romanized: Arákhnē, lit. 'spider', cognate with Latin araneus ) [ 1 ] is the protagonist of a tale in Greek mythology known primarily from the version told by the Roman poet Ovid (43 BCE–17 CE), which is the earliest extant source for the story. [ 2 ]
Pallas and Arachne; Pallas and the Centaur; Pandora (painting) The Parisian Sphinx; The Parnassus; Persephone (painting) Polyphemus (Sebastiano del Piombo) Prometheus (Orozco) Prometheus Being Chained by Vulcan; Prometheus Bound (Rubens) Prometheus Bound (Thomas Cole) Psamathe (Leighton) The Psyché (My Studio) Psyche Abandoned (painting)
It is also known by the title The Fable of Arachne. Most scholars regard it as a late work by the artist, dating from 1657-58, but some argue that it was done c. 1644 -48. [ 1 ] Velázquez scholar Jonathan Brown writes that Las Hilanderas and Las Meninas are arguably Velázquez's "two greatest paintings....
Pallas and Arachne; Pallas Athena (Rembrandt) W. Woodstock Mural This page was last edited on 12 December 2017, at 16:23 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
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Athena's epithet Pallas – her most renowned one – is derived either from πάλλω, meaning "to brandish [as a weapon]", or, more likely, from παλλακίς and related words, meaning "youth, young woman". [52] On this topic, Walter Burkert says "she is the Pallas of Athens, Pallas Athenaie, just as Hera of Argos is Here Argeie". [4]