Sibyl Seated with Tablet / Bartolomeo Coriolano / after Guido Reni
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2009/2.23
- Title
- Sibyl Seated with Tablet
- Artist
- Bartolomeo Coriolano
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Artist Life Dates
- (ca. 1599 - ca. 1676)
- Medium and Support
- chiaroscuro woodcut on laid paper
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- Italy (nation)
- Lazio (region)
- Roma (province)
- Rome (inhabited place)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Italy (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Lazio (region)
- Creation Place 4
- Roma (province)
- Creation Place 5
- Rome (inhabited place)
- Credit Line
- Gift of J. Frederick Hoffman
- Style/Group/Movement
- Baroque
- Period
- Europe, Baroque (1590-1750)
- Dimensions
- 25.6 cm x 19 cm (10 1/16 in. x 7 1/2 in.)
- Century
- 17th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Primary Object Type
- chiaroscuro woodcut
- Physical Description
- A woman wearing long robes sits holding a pen in her right hand and props up a blank tablet in her lap. A putto helps support the table from behind and points toward the seated figure. A pot of ink with another pen appears next to his foot.
- Subject Matter
- The print depicts an ancient prophetess, known as a sibyl, holding a pen and awaiting a prophecy that she will inscribe on the blank tablet held in her lap. The chiaroscuro woodcut was probably made by Coriolano after a drawing by the famous painter Guido Reni (1575-1642). Reni, in turn, apparently found inspiration for this work in a chiaroscuro woodcut of a similar subject made by the artist Ugo da Carpi after Raphael over a century earlier.
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Record
- 2009/2.23
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2009-sl-2.23/ua2005_069.jpg
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"Sibyl Seated with Tablet; ; Bartolomeo Coriolano; after Guido Reni." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2009-sl-2.23/ua2005_069.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024.
