Prometheus Sculpture - NY, NY
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This sculpture of Prometheus has become an icon of Rockefeller Center and New York City.
Waymark Code: WMY11D
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 03/30/2018
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Rockefeller Center is a complex of nineteen buildings covering 22 acres between 48th and 51st Streets and 5th and 6th Avenues. Construction Construction of the original 14 Art Deco style buildings began on May 17, 1930 and was completed in 1939. In the center of the complex is the skating rink with the monumental gilded bronze Art Deco statue of Prometheus overlooking the skaters. The statue is set in the middle of a fountain and in front red granite wall.
The sculpture by Paul Manship was personally commissioned from the artist by John D. Rockefeller to be the centerpiece of the magnificent Art Deco plaza. It was dedicated on January 9, 1934. It depicts the Greek mythological Titan, Prometheus, in flight bringing fire from heaven to earth. An inscription in gold lettering on the red granite wall is taken from Aeschylus:
PROMETHEUS, TEACHER IN EVERY ART, BROUGHT THE FIRE
THAT HATH PROVED TO MORTALS A MEANS TO MIGHTY ENDS
The stamp was issued by St. Kitts on May 26, 2016 as part of a four stamp souvenir sheet issued for the 2016 World Stamp Show in New York City.