Tag: Sibyl

Pietà (1575-1576)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Pietà 1575–1576 Oil on canvas, 353 x 347 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia Detail with Titian’s self-portrait as an old man kneeling before Christ.

Studi per la Sibilla libica, recto (c.1510-1511)

Michelangelo (1475-1564) Studi per la Sibilla libica, recto (Studies for the Libyan Sibyl, recto) c.1510–1511 Chalk, 28.9 × 21.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Verso: Michelangelo (1475-1564) Studi per la Sibilla libica, verso c.1510–1511 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York…

Studi per la Sibilla libica, verso (c.1510-1511)

Michelangelo (1475-1564) Studi per la Sibilla libica, verso (Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure, verso) c.1510–1511 Chalk, 28.9 × 21.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Recto: Michelangelo (1475-1564) Studi per la Sibilla…

Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld (1630s)

Brueghel, Jan the Younger (1601-1678) Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld 1630s Oil on copper, 26.7 x 35.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This infernal image of the 1630s was inspired by the “hell landscapes” of Jan Brueghel…

La Sibilla Samia (1651)

Guercino (1591-1666) La Sibilla Samia (The Samian Sibyl with a Putto) 1651 Oil on canvas, 218.5 × 180 cm National Gallery, London The Samian Sibyl was one of 12 pagan sibyls (or priestesses) who, like the Old Testament prophets, were…

Sibilla Cumana con putto (1651)

Guercino (1591-1666) Sibilla Cumana con putto (The Cumaean Sibyl with a Putto) 1651 Oil on canvas, 222 x 168.5 cm National Gallery, London The Cumaean Sibyl is one of 12 pagan sibyls, or prophetesses, said to have foretold the coming…