This presentation explores various themes from Art History, specifically the Myth of Prometheus and fertility figures.

1. Myth, Culture, and the Eternal
Figure

2. Atlas and Prometheus
“Atlas and
Prometheus”
Date unknown

3. Peter Paul
Rubens
“Prometheus
Bound” 1612

4. Heinrich Fueger
“Prometheus
Bringing Fire to
Humanity”
1817

5. Paul Manship
Prometheus Stealing Fire 1932

6. Willem de
Kooning
“Prometheus”
1962

7. “Atlas” 1932

8. Zlitan Mosaic depicting Gladiators c.
AD 200 Lybia

9. Gerome “Pollice Verso” 1872 at the
Phoenix Art Museum

11. Detail of Gerome “Pollice Verso”

12. Phillip Guston “Gladiators”
1940

13. Detail of “Gladiators”

15. Frank
Lobdell
“Gladiator”
1970

16. Cycladic
Figurine
3300-2200 BC

17. Alexandros of Antioch
“Venus de Milo” 130-100 BC

18. Constantine Brancusi “Sleeping Muse”
1909

20. Alberto
Giacametti
“Walking Woman”
1960

21. Nathan Oliveira,
“Standing Figure,”
1970,
Oil on canvas,
78 x 60in