The Wrath of the Gods: Masterpieces by Rubens, Michelangelo, and Titian

The Wrath of the Gods focuses on Peter Paul Rubens’s masterpiece, Prometheus Bound, a singular vision of pain, torment, and creative struggle.

This unprecedented exhibition places the work—one of the most important and beloved in the Museum’s collection—in conversation with the paintings, drawings, and prints that inspired it, offering a fresh opportunity to delve into the creative process of one of art history’s most important figures.

Highlights include Michelangelo’s Tityus, perhaps the artist’s most famous drawing, and Titian’s Tityus, the largest nonreligious Renaissance painting on canvas.

The exhibition also presents an 1805 full-scale cast of The Laocoön, on loan from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and works by Hendrik Goltzius and Michiel Coxcie, whose painting Cain and Abel debuts in Philadelphia after a recent cleaning by the Museo del Prado in Madrid.