Giorgio Ghisi, Michelangelo
The Delphic Sibyl
1569-1578
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Giorgio Ghisi, Michelangelo
The Delphic Sibyl
1569-1578
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 558 x 432 mm. (21 15/16 x 17 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.15169
From an untitled series of six engravings reproducing six of the twelve Seers (seven Propets and five Sibyls) in pendentives at the lower edges of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512.
The Illustrated Bartsch. Ed. Walter L. Strauss. New York, 1978-present.
Inscribed: In plate, at center: "DELPHICA"; at lower right, in plate: ".G.MF 1540"; at left, in graphite: [indecipherable in frame]; at right, in graphite: [indecipherable in frame]