#date:1511

[art-of-darkness]

Raphael — Study for the Phrygian Sibyl, c. 1511.  

Drawing: Red chalk, 26.1 x 16.6 cm. The British Museum, London.

The Phrygian Sibyl'; a draped woman seated to right, looking round to left Red chalk Verso: Drapery study for the lower half of a seated figure Red chalk.

The recto is a study for the so-called Phrygian Sibyl, painted in fresco 1511-12 immediately to the left of the arch, in the Chigi Chapel, S Maria della Pace, Rome. The verso drawing could be intended for an earlier version of the Tiburtine (?) Sibyl, as the positioning of the left foot on a vase suggests.Source

Chalk

Mythology

Renaissance