The abduction of Ganymede by an eagle, perhaps Zeus in avian form, was adopted by other noted artists, including Michelangelo, Rubens, Tiepolo and Rembrandt, the latter perhaps the inspiration for a ...

on which was perched an eagle. The god was crowned in a wreath of olive shoots and adorned in gold robes and gold sandals.

So he stole fire from the gods and gave it to men. Zeus was furious! He chained Prometheus to a mountain. Every day an eagle would swoop down and gnaw at his liver and every night he would recover.

Statue of Zeus. Henry Blundell believed that it originated from Emperor Hadrian's villa at Tivoli. The certain provenance of the statue around 1790 was the Villa d'Este. The statue was much restored ...