Giorgio Ghisi and Michelangelo
The Prophet Joel
1569-1578
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Engraving, Sheet: 561 x 426 mm. (22 1/16 x 16 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.15167
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.
Inscribed: In plate, at center: "IOEL"; in plate, at lower center: "GMF 1540 [on sphere beneath standing figure]"; at left, in graphite: [indecipherable]; at right, in graphite: [indecipherable]"
