The Delphic Sybil
Giorgio Ghisi, Italian, 1520 - 1582
after Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian, 1475 - 1564
about 1572
Engraving on laid paper
Overall: 22 1/4 × 17 1/16 in. (56.5 × 43.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Class of 1935 Memorial Fund
PR.993.8
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, on tablet: Delphica; lower right: .GMF 1540/ Nico uan aelst / for. Romae. Watermark: Pilgrim with horizontal staff in circle with star (Boorsch and Lewis, no. 55), paper datable to 1570's.
Course History
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Marlene Heck, Winter 2012
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Mary Coffey, Winter 2014
FRIT 34, Sex and Gender in the Italian Renaissance, Courtney Quaintance, Spring 2015
ITAL 7, Women in Renaissance Venice, Courtney Quaintance, Spring 2015
ARTH 48.07, Michaelangelo's Modernism, Allan Doyle, Spring 2019
Exhibition History
A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth Century European Prints from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 9, 1995-February 4, 1996, no. 45.
Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 13-December 21, 1994
An Introduction to the History of Art: Works from the 15th to 18th Centuries, Art 2, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 14, 1993-January 30, 1994.
Books in Art/Art in Books, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ArtH16, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 4-March 9, 1997.
Figure Studies, Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 8-December 13, 1993.
Introduction to the History of Art: Works from the 15th to the 18th Centuries, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ArtH 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 24, 1994 - February 5, 1995
Remembrance of Things Past: Prints and Photographs from the Class of 1935 Memorial Fund, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-September 3, 2000.
Representations of the Body in Space from the Renaissance to the Present: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 3-March 15, 1998.
Teaching the History of Western Art 1500-Present, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ArtH2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 27-March 11, 2001.
Publication History
Richard Rand, "A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth-Century European Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1995, no. 45.
The Illustrated Bartsch, New York, Abaris Books, 1986, vol. 31, no. 20.
Michael and R.E. Lewis, The Engravings of Giorgio Ghisi, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985, pp. 162-65, no. 49.
Provenance
Robert Dance, Inc., New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1993.
Catalogue Raisonne
Bartsch, no. 20; Lewis & Lewis.Boorsch 49 iiia/iv
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