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| According to legend, Arachne produced such a wonderful weaving that she provoked the jealousy of the goddess Athena, who turned her into a spider. The women in Velazquez's The Fable of Arachne (The Spinners), 1644-48, come from Titian and Rubens; Victorine Meurent and Manet's brother and brother-in-law have a picnic a la Raphael and Giorgione/Titian in the Dejeuner sur l'herbe, 1863. In Greek mythology, skilled Arachne challenged Athena, the goddess of wisdom and patron of the loom, to a contest. |
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