Allegory of Industry

Allegory of Industry is a tempera on canvas tondo painted by Francisco Goya, c. 1805. It was one of the four paintings from a series of allegories about scientific and economic progress (including the Allegory of Agriculture, Allegory of Commerce, and Allegory of Science, the latter of which has been lost), which decorated a waiting room of the residence of Manuel Godoy, Prime Minister of Spain during the reign of Charles IV. Since 1932, the picture has been in the Museo del Prado. The image shows two young women as they thread their respective spinning wheels in a semi-darkened room, illuminated by a large window which opens from the left (from the point of view of the observer). At the back, in the dark, one can discern uncertain faces of old women (who have been linked to the Fates). The uncertainty of these women doesn’t reveal whether or not they are factor workers or representation…

摘自英文维基百科「Allegory of Industry」（CC BY-SA 4.0），暂时没有中文条目。