The Myth of Prometheus is a series of five panels painted by Piero di Cosimo. It shows Prometheus standing before a life-size statue.
| Artist | Piero di Cosimo |
|---|---|
| Year | 1515 |
| Type | Oil on panel |
| Location | Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg |
Famous quotes containing the words myth and/or prometheus:
“One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fibre of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardy.”
—Jonathan Raban (b. 1942)
“Man, became man through work, who stepped out of the animal kingdom as transformer of the natural into the artificial, who became therefore the magician, man the creator of social reality, will always stay the great magician, will always be Prometheus bringing fire from heaven to earth, will always be Orpheus enthralling nature with his music. Not until humanity itself dies will art die.”
—Ernst Fischer (1899–1972)