The Hellenic Ministry of Culture, present for the first time to the Greek public the painting "Prometheus Unbound" from the Tatoi Estate Collection at Canellopoulos The monumental work ( Χ m.) is considered as the masterpiece of the Danish artist Carl Bloch and was made in 1864 for the young king George I, who commissioned it on his appointment to the Greek throne (1863). It depicts Prometheus freeing himself from the chains imposed to him by Zeus, while Hercules has just killed the eagle, which devoured daily the Titan's liver. It is an allegorical work of the period of Roma
The Hellenic Ministry of Culture, present for the first time to the Greek public the painting "Prometheus Unbound" from the Tatoi Estate Collection at Canellopoulos The monumental work ( Χ m.) is considered as the masterpiece of the Danish artist Carl Bloch and was made in 1864 for the young king George I, who commissioned it on his appointment to the Greek throne (1863). It depicts Prometheus freeing himself from the chains imposed to him by Zeus, while Hercules has just killed the eagle, which devoured daily the Titan's liver. It is an allegorical work of the period of Romanticism, which is characterized by the dramatic expressions of the figures and the intense contrasts between dark and light. The painting was exhibited for the last time in public at the Copenhagen Academy of Fine Arts in 1932 and then its tracks faded away. For that reason, some art historians considered it lost. However, in 2012 it was relocated by the Directorate of Conservation of Ancient and Modern Monuments of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture at the Tatoi Estate (former royal residence). Then, the long process of systematic conservation, study and scientific analysis started.
Size: 2160px × 3240px
Location: Athens Greece
Photo credit: © Greek photonews / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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