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Prometheus
Sebastiano de' Valentinis
1558
Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar)
Prometheus Painter
ca. 570–560 BCE
Fragment of a terracotta neck-amphora (jar)
Prometheus Painter
ca. 575–560 BCE
Bronze mirror
Etruscan
early 3rd century BCE
Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar)
Prometheus Painter
ca. 570–560 BCE
Prometheus and Vulture
Koren Der Harootian
1948
Neck-amphora, Tyrrhenian fragments
Prometheus Painter
ca. 575–550 BCE
Neck-amphora, Tyrrhenian, fragmentary
Prometheus Painter
ca. 560 BCE
Study for Prometheus
Kurt Seligmann
1946
Prometheus (or Tityus)
Vincenzo Camuccini
1771–1844
The Release of Prometheus
Max Klinger
late 19th–early 20th century
Terracotta medallion fragment
Roman, Gallic
mid-2nd century CE
Study for a Prometheus Bound (recto); slight sketch of head and shoulders of man in lead pencil (verso)
Salvator Rosa
1615–73
Torture of Prometheus set within a cornice
Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia)
1580
Minerva assisting Prometheus as he attempts to scale the heavens
Bartolomeo Crivellari
1756
France, Prometheus and the Vulture, from "News of the day"
Honoré Daumier
February 13, 1871
Prometheus Fountain
Harold Frank Collinson
mid 20th century
The Prometheus
Carl Hoeckner
1900–1960
Prometheus chained, two pendentives and an Egyptian Saint Marie, volume 3, plate 234 from "Monuments des Arts du Dessin"
Jules Dagneau
1829
The Freeing of Prometheus
Rudolf Jettmar
1910
Prometheus Bound (from "Harper's Weekly")
Thomas Nast
March 2, 1867
Nations of Africa ballets
Anonymous, Italian, 17th century
17th century
Prometheus and the Atom # 2
Hilda Katz
ca. 1965
Prometheus (Académie d'homme dite Le Supplice de Prométhée)
Pierre Chenu
1755
Prometheus, hands raised above his head
José Clemente Orozco
1935
Der Schlechtgefesselte Prometheus
André Gide
1909
Prometheus, naked, chained to a rock, looking up at an eagle standing over him
Francesco Bartolozzi
1795
Five numbered scenes, each after a painter in the Accademia Degl'Incamminati, from IL FUNERALE D'AGOSTINO CARRACCIO FATTO IN BOLOGNA SUA PATRIA DAGL'INCAMINATI Academici del Disegno: 1. Painting and Poetry mourning the death of Agostino Carracci, painted by Francesco Brizio; 2. Painting with a lyre and Apollo pointing to stars on Carracci's grave, design by Giacomo Cavedone; 3. The head of Christ, painted by Agostino Carracci; 4. Prometheus with a torch and Athena behind him, painted by Alessandro Albini; 5. Aurora abducting Cephalus, painted by Leonello Spada.
Guido Reni
1603
Plate 24: Hercules unchaining Prometheus from a rock; from the 'Galeria nel Palazzo Farnese in Roma ... dipinta da Annibale Caracci'
Carlo Cesi
1657
Pair of vases
Frederick Sonne
ca. 1875
Plate 25 [quater]: Minerva teaching Prometheus to animate a statue he made; from the 'Galeria nel Palazzo Farnese in Roma ... dipinta da Annibale Caracci'
Carlo Cesi
1657
Lucretia
Philippe Bertrand
1704 or earlier
Hercules Delivering the Erymanthean Boar to Eurystheus
François Lespingola
last quarter 17th century
Medal: Presciano de Ferrara
Savelli Sperandio
model 1473
[Self-Portrait in Studio]
Constantin Brancusi
1923
Tityus Punished in Hell
Cornelis Cort
1566
Prometheus and the Eagle: Seventy-three prints engraved by F. Bartolozzi &c. from the Original Pictures and Drawings of Michaelangelo, Domenichino, Annibal, Lodovico, and Agostino Carraci, Guercino, P. da Cortona, Carlo Maratti, Elisabetta Sirani, Pellegrino Tibaldi, Franceschino &c. in the collection of His Majesty, &c., vol. II
Francesco Bartolozzi
1793–98
Prometheus forms Man in from Water and Earth and Minerva Animates Him, from "Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide en Latin et en François de la traduction de M. l'Abbé Banier de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Avec des explications historiques. A Paris Chez Despilly rue saint Jacques à la croix d'or. MDCCLXVII. Avec Approbation et Privilège du Roi"
Joseph de Longueil
1765
Plate 21: Four rows of details from the Farnese gallery; across the top, four small paintings illustrating Hercules and the hydra, Minerva and Prometheus, Arion riding a dolphin, and Hercules and Prometheus; below, two roundels at each side with the personifications of Charity and Justice, at center two paintings depicting Peleus and Thetis and two tritons fighting; below, three busts, and along the bottom, four classical sculptures standing; from the Galeriae Farnesianae Icones
Pietro Aquila
ca. 1674
Wolf and Fox Hunt
Peter Paul Rubens
ca. 1616