MICHELANGELO'S LIBYAN SIBYL TISSUE PAPER
One of Michelangelo's most celebrated artwork from the fresco painting of the Sistine Chapel. The latin word Sibyl comes from the ancient greek word for prophetess. There were many sibyls in the ancient world, but the Libyan Sibyl, in Classical mythology, foretold the "coming of the day when that which is hidden shall be revealed." She was named Phemonoe and was the prophetic priestess presiding over the Oracle of Zeus-Ammon. Typical of Michelangelo and Italian art to mix mythology and Biblical characters in their works. The Libyan Sibyl described herself anciently: I am by birth half mortal, half divine; An immortal nymph was my mother, my father an eater of grain; On my mother's side of Idaean birth, but my fatherland was red Marpessus, sacred to the Mother, and the river Aidoneus. (Pausanias 10.12.3) For other Michelangelo and works by Da Vinci and other Italian Renaissance fine art see the SalvageScapes store collection ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
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