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
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...