print
- Museum number
- H,3.40
- Description
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A woman standing at left, resting her left foot atop an uninscribed socle and writing in a book which she supports on her left knee; another woman at right holding a closed book in both hands and looking upwards; above a portion of the zodiac with the signs of libra and scorpio just visible
Engraving
- Production date
- 1517-1520
- Dimensions
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Height: 287 millimetres
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Width: 199 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- It has been suggested that this work is after Raphael and that the figures represent the Cumaean and Tiburtine Sibyls or the muses Clio and Urania. There is a debate as to whether the source derives from Baldassarre Peruzzi or Marcantonio himself. The left figure appears in stucco in the Logge of the Vatican and may be inspired by the relief of victory writing on a shield from Trajan's Column as reproduced in the Codex Escurialensis while the second woman may be likened to Maenad figures from Bacchic sarcophagi.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1837 (before)
- Acquisition notes
- Laid down
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- H,3.40
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1973.U.71
