Tityus

Tityus is easily taken for Prometheus. Both are chained, and both have a great bird tearing at their liver. Tityus, though, was a giant who tried to assault Leto, the mother of Apollo and Artemis, and was struck down for it and sent to the underworld, where vultures feed on his liver as it grows back. Langetti brings the punishment right up to the viewer, the chained arms thrown over the head, the mouth open, the bird's hooked beak at the wound below the ribs.

The painting belongs to the Mauritshuis and hangs in the Gallery Prince Willem V beside its partner, Sisyphus by Antonio Zanchi, another painter working in Venice in the same years. Pairing these two damned men was an old idea there. In the late 1540s Titian had painted both of them for Mary of Hungary, regent of the Netherlands, in a set of four great sinners of the underworld.