In his 65 years on display in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the mythical Titan Prometheus has endured bondage in chains with a massive eagle yanking at his liver in spectacular style. The ...

The story of Prometheus appears in many sources. In Greek mythology, Prometheus is an immortal giant known as a Titan. After sculpting a clay figure of a human, he ascended Mount Olympus and stole the ...

No. 36. PRometheus Chained to the Rock. School of Caravaggio. The mythological account of PRometheus is, "That Jupiter bound him to a pillar on Mount Caucasus with chains, and sent an eagle to prey ...

As Julie Ribits brushed varnish onto a small part of the 17th century painting, the eye and beak of an eagle came into view. The detail could have been easily overlooked, compared to the rest of the ...