In “Minerva’s Web,” Sarah Ann Weber’s 18 colored-pencil and watercolor works are hung in a single row that wraps around three of the room’s four walls at Gallery 12.26, windows into a ...

Is it arrogance to speak truth?” asks Arachne, a mortal woman with an extraordinary talent for weaving and the titular ...

Minerva and Arachne by Tintoretto and members of his workshop. [Photo provided to China Daily] The exhibition starts with an introduction to Venice, which focuses on the public representation of ...

Minerva grabbed Arachne’s work of art and tore it to bits. Then she struck Arachne three times on the head with the shuttle. Unable to bear the humiliation, ...

At 2.72 meters wide and 1.45 meters high, it portrays the rivalry between Arachne, a weaver of great skill, and Minerva, the Roman name of Athena from the mythologies.