Giorgio Ghisi (after Michelangelo
Buonarotti), The Eritrean Sibyl, 1549.
Giorgio Ghisi was a prolific and influential Italian metalworker
and engraver who worked both north and south of the Alps. He
is best known for reproducing the designs of his Italian predecessors
and contemporaries. The Eritrean Sibyl, dated 1549 in the plate,
represents one of the twelve prophets and sibyls from Michelangelo’s
Sistine Chapel ceiling.
above:
Giorgio Ghisi (after Michelangelo Buonarotti), The Eritrean Sibyl,
1549. Engraving, 27 x 20-1/2 in. Museum purchase, The Dorothy Johnston
Towne (Class of 1923) Fund, 2004.91.
