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Sibyl and Prophet

Artist	Andrea Mantegna
Year	c. 1495
Medium	distemper and gold on canvas
Dimensions	56.2 cm × 48.6 cm (22.1 in × 19.1 in)
Location	Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati

Sibyl and Prophet is a grisaille distemper painting by Andrea Mantegna c. 1495. It is now in the Cincinnati Art Museum.^[1]

History

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Mantegna produced several grisailles in the last eleven years of his life; this style imitated relief sculpture and was then popular in the Mantuan court due to the duchy's lack of major sculptors and stone quarries. Possibly a fragment from a larger work, it was probably a commission by Isabella d'Este for her apartments and shows a sibyl in a crown and toga debating with a bearded Old Testament prophet who holds the scroll they are discussing.^[2]

References

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^ "Catalogue entry".
^ (in Italian) Tatjana Pauli, Mantegna, Leonardo Arte, Milano, 2001. ISBN 9788883101878

v t e Andrea Mantegna
Paintings	Saint Mark (1448) Ovetari Chapel (1448–1457) Adoration of the Shepherds (c. 1450–1451) Saint Jerome in the Wilderness (c. 1451) San Luca Altarpiece (1453) Saint James Led to His Execution (c. 1453–1455) Presentation at the Temple (c. 1455) Agony in the Garden (c. 1458) Crucifixion (1459) Agony in the Garden (c. 1459) Portrait of Cardinal Ludovico Trevisan (c. 1459–1460) Saint Bernardino of Siena Between Two Angels (1460) Death of the Virgin and Christ Bearing the Soul of the Virgin (c. 1461) Portrait of a Man (c. 1460) Portrait of Francesco Gonzaga (c. 1461) Madonna with Sleeping Child (c. 1470) Saint George (c. 1460) San Zeno Altarpiece (1460) Saint Sebastian (Vienna; c. 1459) Uffizi Triptych (Ascension; Circumcision; Adoration of the Magi) (1462) The Circumcision (1464) Portrait of Carlo de' Medici (c. 1459–1466) Saint Sebastian (Paris; c. 1480) Madonna of the Cherubim (c. 1485) Triumphs of Caesar (c. 1486) Christ as the Suffering Redeemer (c. 1488–1500) Lamentation of Christ (c. 1490) Madonna of the Caves (1490) Saint Sebastian (Venice; 1490) Madonna and Child with Three Saints (1490–1500) Resurrection (1492–1493) Descent into Limbo (1492–1493) Christ the Redeemer (1493) Judith with the Head of Holofernes (Dublin; c. 1495) Judith with the Head of Holofernes (Washington; 1495) Exemplary Women of Antiquity (1495–1500) Sibyl and Prophet (1495–1500) Madonna della Vittoria (1496) Trivulzio Madonna (1497) Parnassus (Mars and Venus) (1497) Ecce Homo (c. 1500) Holy Family (c. 1500) Triumph of the Virtues (c. 1502) The Introduction of the Cult of Cybele at Rome (c. 1505–1506) Baptism of Christ (1506)
Frescoes	Camera degli Sposi (1465–1474)
Related	Mantegna funerary chapel

v t e Cincinnati Art Museum
Directors	Alfred T. Goshorn Joseph Henry Gest Timothy Rub Aaron Betsky
Curators	Grace Morley Gustave Von Groschwitz Lewis Henry Meakin
Benefactors	John J. Emery Mary Emery Reuben R. Springer Lois Rosenthal Melville E. Ingalls Louise Nippert Joseph Longworth
Collection	The Duchess of Montesquiou-Fezensac Archbishop William Henry Elder Undergrowth with Two Figures Daughters of Revolution Portrait of a Dutch Family Samson and Delilah Sibyl and Prophet
Related	Art Academy of Cincinnati Eden Park Cincinnati Art Club
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