The Erythraean sibyl. Engraving by G. Ghisi, ca. 1540, after Michelangelo.

  • Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564.
Date:
[between 1585? and 1613]
Reference:
3043966i
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About this work

Description

One of the sibyls painted by Michelangelo in the Sistine chapel, Rome. She is seated, directed to right, holding the pages of an open book, and surrounded by nude and clothed figures

Publication/Creation

Romae : Nico. van Aelst formis, [between 1585? and 1613]
Romae (ad templum S.a M.a de Pace) : Ioanes Iacobus de Rubeis formis cum privil. sum(m) Pont, [between 1680? and 1691]

Physical description

1 print : line engraving ; platemark 56.8 x 43.6 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Michael Angelus invent. et pinxit. Georgius Mantuanus fecit

Edition

[State with imprint of Ioanes Iacobus de Rubeis in cartouche designed for the name of the sibyl].

References note

Adam Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, Vienna 1813, vol. XV, p. 394, no. 21 ("Autre Sibylle")

Reference

Wellcome Collection 3043966i

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