Fresco commissioned for the entrance hall of the Architecture Pavilion of Porto’s School of Fine Arts (today Carlos Ramos Pavilion of the School of Fine Arts of the University of Porto), as an example of the integration of the arts and a masterclass in fresco painting. The panel depicts some of the many different episodes that make up the myth of Prometheus. At the centre of the composition Prometheus moulds the first humans from clay, with early humankind represented in a still primeval state at his feet. In the top section Prometheus steals the fire from the gods (left) to provide enlightment to his creation and is therefore punished for it to having his liver eaten every day by an eagle (right). In the bottom left, Prometheus’ son Deukalion and his wife Phyrra are being warned by the hero of the incoming flood sent by Zeus to destroy humankind. In the lower section, around the feet of the titan, surviving humans now in posession of knowledge develop the arts of architecture, music and painting. Finally, towards the right-hand side, Herakles armed with a bow shoots the eagle to liberate the titan.

The inscription “A cultura burguesa morrerá!” (Burgeois culture will die!) and other details in blue were added around 1974 in the wake of Portugal’s April Revolution.