Minerva verandert Arachne in een spin, Antonio Tempesta, 1606 - 1638

Title(s)

Minerva verandert Arachne in een spin
Arachne in araneam a Pallade convertitur (title on object)
Metamorphoseon sive transformationum (series title)
Metamorfosen van Ovidius (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

54/150

Object number

RP-P-H-G-140-1

Catalogue reference

• The Illustrated Bartsch 691
• Bartsch 638-787

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: ‘Hinloopen’

Description

Minerva verandert Arachne in een spin, omdat Arachne een weefwedstrijd heeft verloren. Titel in het Latijn in ondermarge.

Artist

• print maker: Antonio Tempesta
• publisher: Willem Janszoon Blaeu
• publisher: Pieter de Jode (I) (rejected attribution)

Place

print maker: Italy
publisher: Amsterdam
publisher: Antwerp

Dating

1606 - 1638

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 104 mm × width 118 mm

What

• spiders
• Arachne changed into a spider: when hanging herself after having been defeated in a weaving contest with Minerva, Arachne is changed into a spider by the goddess (Ovid, Metamorphoses VI 135)

Credit line

• On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Acquisition

loan 1957

Copyright

Public domain

• The illustrated Bartsch, dl. 36, p. 36, cat.nr. 691
• Le peintre graveur, dl. 17, p. 151, cat.nr. 638-787