25 may 1651 artist left Italy. His return to Madrid in June of the same year, art historians have dated the beginning of the late period of his work. Apart from the usual portraits of members of the Royal family in this period were created two paintings, considered to be the peak of creativity of the great artist —" Las Meninas" (1656, Prado, Madrid) and the" Spinners" ("the Myth of Arachne") (about 1657, Prado, Madrid). Each of them not only is beautifully depicted an episode from the life, but...