Recto: Detail from the Sistine Ceiling: the Libyan Sibyl
Verso: Detail from the Sistine Ceiling: the nude Torso of a Boy
Details
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Title
Recto: Detail from the Sistine Ceiling: the Libyan Sibyl
Verso: Detail from the Sistine Ceiling: the nude Torso of a Boy -
Artist/maker
after Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564) -
Associated place
Europe (place of creation) -
Date
16th century (1501 - 1600) -
Material and technique
recto and Verso: Black chalk on off-white paper
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Object type
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Dimensions
sheet 21.9 x 15 cm (height x width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by a Body of Subscribers, 1846.
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Museum location
Museum department
Western Art
Accession no.
WA1846.102
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Further reading
Parker, Karl Theodore, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, II, Italian Schools (Oxford, 1956), 357
Joannides, Paul, The Drawings of Michelangelo and His Followers in the Ashmolean Museum (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 87
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