Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Clotho.
The gallery
Clotho
Camille Claudel, 1893
A plaster sculpture of Clotho, the Fate who spins the thread of life, imagined not as a maiden but as a gaunt old woman ensnared in the very threads she spins. Claudel's haunting inversion of the myth makes destiny itself appear entangled in its own web.
The Three Fates
Attributed to Il Sodoma, c. 1525
An oil painting of the three Fates at their shared task: Clotho spinning the thread of life, Lachesis measuring it, and Atropos waiting with shears to cut it. The work is held in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome.