The Cumaean Sibyl (after Michelangelo)
Medium
Red chalk
Dimensions
Sheet: 19 5/16 x 14 9/16 in. (49 x 37 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2013
Accession Number
2013.536
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
ChildrenWomenSibyl
About the Artist
Michelangelo Buonarroti|Jean Robert Ango · 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...