17TH-CENTURY PAINTER OF THE EUROPEAN SCHOOL

17TH-CENTURY PAINTER OF THE EUROPEAN SCHOOL PROMETHEUS, ASSISTED BY MINERVA, GIVES LIFE TO THE FIRST MAN WITH CELESTIAL FIRE Oil on canvas, 140 x 108 cm. 19th-century gilded and carved wooden frame. The painting depicts a rare and sophisticated episode from the myth of Prometheus, shown here in the act of breathing life into the first man through celestial fire, in the presence of Minerva. Prometheus, depicted as a vigorous, bearded male figure draped in a flowing red robe, holds a long rod en

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H 140 × B 108 cm