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The Myth of Prometheus (Piero di Cosimo)

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471: 113: 29: 195:, is held in Strasbourg. The Strasbourg version depicts a statue addressed by Prometheus on the left side of the canvas, with other activities depicted elsewhere on the canvas with equal prominence, including a dark bird on the right side of the canvas apparently the symbolic of the eternal torment of Prometheus as recorded in mythological sources. 547: 390: 315: 222:. In both cases the imagination of the artist is centered around the 'Awakening of Humanity,' and in both cases the stimulus of this awakening is fire," (p. 50). 375: 508: 532: 246: 537: 192: 159: 557: 330: 542: 360: 470: 501: 270: 285: 239: 494: 420: 214:
and the theme of human development of primitive mankind to civilized mankind stating: "...represent the myth of
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Two versions of the painting with the same title of "The Myth of Prometheus" are known to exist.
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commented on the painting of Prometheus in comparison to paintings about
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This article about a sixteenth-century painting is a
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Piero di Cosimo
Oil on panel
Alte Pinakothek
Munich
Piero di Cosimo
Prometheus

Piero di Cosimo
Oil on panel
Musée des Beaux-Arts
Strasbourg
Alte Pinakothek
Musée des Beaux-Arts
Erwin Panofsky
Vulcan (mythology)
Prometheus
Epimetheus
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Piero di Cosimo
Portrait of Francesco Giamberti
Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci
Venus, Mars and Cupid
Visitation with Saint Nicholas and Saint Anthony
St. Mary Magdalene
The Death of Procris
The Discovery of Honey by Bacchus
Saint Jerome in Meditation

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