Joel

Giorgio Ghisica. 1570-1573

Details

Title: Joel
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: Fourth of five 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: Possible watermark of tower and figure
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 18; Boorsch 44 iv/v; 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: 1973.37.2.2

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