Portion of the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel with the Libyan Sibyl, Prophet Daniel, Jesse, David, and Solomon, from Sibyls and Prophets from the Sistine Chapel Vaults
1577 (republished in 1628)
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 17 1/8 × 21 5/8 in. (43.5 × 54.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
Accession Number
17.50.19-153
Tags
About the Artist
Michelangelo Buonarroti|Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia) · 1475–1564
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564) stands as the quintessential figure of the Italian High Renaissance, a sculptor, painter, architect, and poet whose mastery across disciplines embodied the era's humanist ideals. Born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese within the Republic of Florence to a modest family—his father, Lodovico di Buonarroti Simoni, served as a minor magistrate—Michelang...