Prometheus, naked, chained to a rock, looking up at an eagle standing over him
Medium
Crayon-manner in red ink
Dimensions
Plate: 10 × 13 7/8 in. (25.4 × 35.2 cm) Sheet: 15 9/16 × 19 7/8 in. (39.5 × 50.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Olga Sichel and Max Philippson, 1962
Accession Number
62.557.193
Tags
About the Artist
Michelangelo Buonarroti|Francesco Bartolozzi · 1475–1564
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564) stands as the quintessential figure of the Italian High Renaissance, a sculptor, painter, architect, and poet whose mastery across disciplines embodied the era's humanist ideals. Born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese within the Republic of Florence to a modest family—his father, Lodovico di Buonarroti Simoni, served as a minor magistrate—Michelang...