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Giorgio Ghisi, Michelangelo

The Persian Sibyl

1569-1578

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Giorgio Ghisi, Michelangelo

The Persian Sibyl

1569-1578

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.
The Illustrated Bartsch. Ed. Walter L. Strauss. New York, 1978-present.

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]"

Artist

Giorgio Ghisi

Italian, 1520-1582
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Artist

Michelangelo

Italian, 1475-1564
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