MICHELANGELO Buonarroti: The Persian Sibyl

✦ MICHELANGELO Buonarroti

🖼 The Persian Sibyl, 1511

◈ Fresco

⊞ 400 × 380 cm

▣ Cappella Sistina

◎ Vatican, Italy

🖼 Order as art print*

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Rendered in fresco, this turbaned figure twists dynamically, her muscular form modeling classical contrapposto against the chapel vault. The Persian Sibyl exemplifies Michelangelo's synthesis of Renaissance humanism with biblical prophecy, asserting non-Western wisdom within Christian theology.

Michelangelo

Frank Zöllner

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