Giorgio Ghisi, Michelangelo
The Eritrean Sibyl
1569-1578
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Giorgio Ghisi, Michelangelo
The Eritrean Sibyl
1569-1578
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 562 x 431 mm. (22 1/8 x 16 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.15170
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: "IOANES IACOBVS / DE RVBEIS FORMIS ROMAE"; in plate, at lower center: "MICHAEL ANGELVS INVENT ET PINXIT GEORGIVS MANTVANVS FECIT"; at left, in graphite: [indedipherable in frame]; at right, in graphite: [indecipherable in frame]