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GIORGIO GHISI Prophets and Sybils.
Set of 6 engravings, early 1570s. Each approximately 563x436 mm; 221/4x171/4 inches. Each in the penultimate state, before the addition of fig leaves on the nude figures. Five sheets with a fleur-de-lys in a double circle watermark (Lewis 21).
After pendentives in Michelangelo's ceiling fresco in the Sistine Chapel, painted between 1508 and 1512. Bartsch 17-22; Lewis 44-49.
