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Minerva protects Prometheus

A broad gold, blue and red frieze, with armed Minerva placing her hand on Prometheus at the far left. Especially effective as a landscape chapter opener linking…

A broad gold, blue and red frieze, with armed Minerva placing her hand on Prometheus at the far left. Especially effective as a landscape chapter opener linking creative intelligence with nineteenth-century reinventions of antiquity.

Source citation: Sébastien Melchior Cornu. Minerva protects Prometheus. c. 1860. Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris. P2781. https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/musee-carnavalet/oeuvres/promethee-modelant-le-premier-homme-composition-provenant-de-l-atrium-de-la

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