Painting of a nude statue on a pedestal in a rocky landscape, with a bearded man in red bending over a figure at left and a winged figure in the sky.

Prometheus creates the first Man

A nude male statue stands on a dark pedestal in a rocky landscape with a distant town and hills. At left, a bearded man in a red cloak bends over a bronze-toned figure, while two people in the foreground gesture toward the statue and a winged figure flies in the upper right.

Artist: Piero di Cosimo
Date: 1510
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Size: 3000 × 1656 px

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Public domain · Piero di Cosimo died 1522 and the work dates by 1510; public domain in the US and life+70 countries.
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Piero di Cosimo, via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

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Prometheus creates the first Man

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