Tityos (Ribera)

Tityos is a 1632 painting, signed and dated by Jusepe de Ribera and showing the torture inflicted on the giant Tityos.

It was part of a series of four paintings - the other three showed the tortures of Sisyphus, Tantalus and Ixion, but only those of Tityos and Ixion still survive, both now in the Prado Museum in Madrid.

It is unknown who commissioned the series, though its large format and theme of torture inflicted on rebels against just authority suggests a royal commission.

The painting depicts Tityos' killing by Apollo

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