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Prometheus (1774) was originally planned as a drama but never completed by Goethe, though the poem is inspired by it. Prometheus is the creative and rebellious spirit rejected by God and who angrily defies him and asserts himself. Ganymede, by direct contrast, is the boyish self who is both adored and seduced by God. As a high Romantic poet and ...
Torture of Prometheus is an oil painting by Salvator Rosa, an Italian Baroque painter active in Naples and Rome, executed c. 1646-1648. The scene depicts a story from Greek mythology, wherein Prometheus, one of the Titans, is punished by Zeus for having provided humanity with fire. The punishment was to chain Prometheus to a rock in the ...
Prometheus (Spanish: Prometeo) is a fresco by Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco [4] depicting the Greek Titan Prometheus stealing fire from the heavens to give to humans. [2] It was commissioned for Pomona College 's Frary Dining Hall and completed in June 1930, [ 4 ] becoming the first modern fresco in the United States.
Prometheus Bound is an oil painting by Peter Paul Rubens, a Flemish Baroque artist from Antwerp. [1] Influenced by the Greek play, Prometheus: The Friend of Man , Peter Paul Rubens completed this painting in his studio with collaboration from Frans Snyders , who rendered the eagle.
The Myth of Prometheus (1515) Oil on panel, Alte Pinakothek, is held at Munich. The Munich version depicts a central statue among other activities in the painting. A second version of The Myth of Prometheus (1515) Oil on panel, Musée des Beaux-Arts, is held in Strasbourg. The Strasbourg version depicts a statue addressed by Prometheus on the ...
Sisyphus is trying to push his rock up the mountain height; cliffs encircle him, and a whirlwind blows the flames of the underworld up around him. Prometheus [d] lies stretched out over masses of mountain rock, of which he seems to have almost become a part; one arm hangs down over the cliff, his body is shrinking and writhing. It is as if ...
There is no record of Cole commenting on the theme of Prometheus Bound.Art historian Patricia Junker notes that writers and artists often took up the myth of Prometheus in the decades before Cole's painting; they include Lord Byron, James Gates Percival, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, James Russell Lowell, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Prometheus is associated with the Greek creation myth where, in some versions, he creates humans from clay and the stolen fire is to bring them to life. A painting, Adam and Eve , also by Baburen, was sold at auction in 1707 together with the Prometheus Being Chained by Vulcan , and one might conjecture that the two works formed a pair, both ...