Giorgio Ghisi, Michelangelo
The Prophet Jeremiah
1569-1578
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Giorgio Ghisi, Michelangelo
The Prophet Jeremiah
1569-1578
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 566 x 435 mm. (22 5/16 x 17 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.15166
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.
Grand Scale. Monumental Prints in the Age of Dürer and Titian
The Illustrated Bartsch. Ed. Walter L. Strauss. New York, 1978-present.
Inscribed: In plate, at center: "HIEREMIAS"; by later hand, lower right in graphite: "No. 1" and at lower left [indecipherable]