Studies
AFTER A WORK COPYING POLIDORO DA CARAVAGGIO (C. 1499-1543)
Two Sibyls
c.1860-1876Carbon print | 23.3 x 18.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 854363
A photograph of a red chalk drawing after Polidoro da Caravaggio now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice (inv. no. 525 recto). This drawing features studies of feet on the verso. Annotated on the verso.
This drawing depicts two women that have been interpreted as two Sibyls (see Bibliographic References). This drawing is a copy after a now lost chiaroscuro by Polidoro da Caravaggio executed on the facade of Sant'Angelo Gate ('Porta Sant'Angelo)', Rome. See also RCIN 854362.
This drawing depicts two women that have been interpreted as two Sibyls (see Bibliographic References). This drawing is a copy after a now lost chiaroscuro by Polidoro da Caravaggio executed on the facade of Sant'Angelo Gate ('Porta Sant'Angelo)', Rome. See also RCIN 854362.
Creator(s)
After a work copying Polidoro da Caravaggio (c. 1499-1543) (draughtsman)
? Raphael (1483-1520) (draughtsman)
23.3 x 18.4 cm (sheet of paper)
- Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1860-76)
Subject(s)
- People
- Women
- Organisation
- Documentation
- Books
- Documentation
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Religions of antiquity
- Classical mythology
- Sibyls (myth)
- Classical mythology
- Religions of antiquity
- Religions and faiths
Object type(s)
- visual works
- photographs
- People
Bibliographic reference(s)
Gallerie dell' Accademia di Venezia : catalogo dei disegni antichi. v. S. Prosperi Valenti Rodinó, Disegni Romani, Toscani e Napoletani (1989), pp. 50-51, no. 26
Other number(s)
Ruland p.324 B.XVII.2
