Trabajo; oficios; historia del trabajo; pintura; artes mecánicas; Murillo; siglo XVII; hilar; vieja; edad; mujer - History Lab https://historylab.es Thu, 19 May 2022 15:24:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Trabajo; oficios; historia del trabajo; pintura; artes mecánicas; Murillo; siglo XVII; hilar; vieja; edad; mujer - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Old woman spinning https://historylab.es/old-woman-spinning/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=old-woman-spinning Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:38 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/vieja-hilando/ Portrait of an Old Woman Spinning by Murillo

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]]> The work, an early copy of an original by Murillo in a private collection, depicts a half-length old woman holding a spindle in her hands while looking straight ahead. In this regard, it is worth noting how manual trades, and more specifically those related to the textile sector, were closely associated with women during the Middle and Modern Ages. In the case of modern Madrid, women were denied access to guilds to carry out the activities they had traditionally carried out in earlier times, being subordinated to the master head of the family. However, widowhood, as the Laws of Toro show, gave women an independent character.

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