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Dark bronze sculpture of a winged-helmeted figure unchaining a nude man seated on rock, with an eagle spreading its wings beside him.

Mercury Unchaining Prometheus

A dark bronze sculpture shows a winged-helmeted youth in a billowing cloak bending over to unchain a muscular nude man reclining on a rocky base. An eagle with spread wings rests beside the captive, and chains lie coiled across the stone base.

Artist
Giovanni Battista Foggini
Date
1685-1710
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
3993 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1710.
Rights checked 2026-11-04 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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