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| This painting and The Maids of Honor are the crowning achievements of Velazquez's last and greatest years. Specialized effects to which he had devoted whole pictures, often neglecting to develop them into fully balanced designs, are here combined in monumental complexity. The spirit of Titian fills the Spinners with a soft haze of dull reds, russets and golden browns, and gives to its plain peasant-women a spontaneous, unaffected classical grace of gesture; so that, even more than the gentlewomen standing in the doorway, they are of one race with the Renaissance goddesses on the distant tapestry. No one has shown more clearly than Velazquez, that honest naturalism in art need not imply a taste for physical ugliness. |
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Features
- Original displayed in the Prado Museum - Puzzle by Clementoni - The great puzzle maker of Italy -
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