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Delphica

Giorgio Ghisica. 1570-1573

Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University

Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States

  • Title: Delphica
  • Creator: Giorgio Ghisi after Michelangelo Buonarroti
  • Date Created: ca. 1570-1573
  • Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in plate, along bottom: monogram and date
  • Set or Series Title: Prophets and Sibyls from the Sistine Ceiling
  • Print State: Third of four states
  • Object Type: Prints, works of art
  • Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
  • Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Friends of the Davison Art Center funds, 1973
  • Materials & Techniques: Engraving. Watermark: Anchor in circle, Briquet 493
  • Keywords: Bible, New Testament, prophets, religions, religious art
  • Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
  • Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 557 mm x 436 mm (21.93 in. x 17.17 in.).
  • Bibliography: Bartsch 17; Boorsch 49 iiia/iv; Bernardine Barnes, Michelangelo in Print: Reproductions as Response in the Sixteenth Century (Ashgate, 2010), pp. 38–40, 42–43, 172, on the set of Prophets and Sibyls
  • Associated People: Created by Giorgio Ghisi (Italian, 1520-1582), After Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 1475-1564)
  • Accession Number: 1973.37.2.1
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University

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