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Prometheus Chained by Mercury
Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1685 - 1710
Drama and dynamism are the ingredients of this scene. At the left, a swirling Mercury chains the nude Prometheus to the rocks because the latter has stolen fire – the burning torch – from the gods. As punishment, every day an eagle was sent to eat his liver, which grew back overnight. As the late Baroque court sculptor to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Foggini specialized in these types of elaborate mythological subjects.
- Artwork typefigure
- Object numberBK-2021-213
- Dimensionsheight 43 cm
- Physical characteristicsgegoten brons