Giorgio Ghisi and Michelangelo
The Persian Sibyl
1569-1578
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 565 x 433 mm. (22 1/4 x 17 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.15168
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.
Susan Dackerman, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'The Pious & the Profane in Renaissance Prints,' September 23, 1998-January 3, 1999.
Inscribed: In plate, at center: "PERSICHA"; at left, in graphite: [indecipherable in frame]; at right, in graphite: [indecipherable in frame]; at lower right, in graphite: "No. [indecipherable]"
