title: Prophets and Sibyls

artist: Pietro Perugino

date: between 1497 and 1500

medium: Fresco

dimensions: size unit=cm height=229 width=370

current location: Institution:Collegio del Cambio, Perugia <!-- location within the gallery/museum -->

source: WGA link|ID=17241|pic-url=link

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title: Pietro Perugino Prophets and Sibyls (detail) - WGA17242

artist: Pietro Perugino

date: between 1497 and 1500

medium: Fresco

current location: Institution:Collegio del Cambio, Perugia <!-- location within the gallery/museum -->

source: WGA link|ID=17242|pic-url=link

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title: Russian Great Deesis with Prophets - Walters 37625

artist:

date: 16^th century

medium: Technique tempera on=panel

dimensions: Overall size cm height=32.1 width=90.5 ; each small panel, size cm width=6.7 ; center panel, size cm height=32.1 width=13.5

current location: Acquired by Henry Walters, 1930

credit: Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork

description: These panels reproduce the upper two tiers of the screen (known as the iconostasis) that separates the nave from the altar in Orthodox churches. Such sets, of which this is one of the earliest known, were used by priests for makeshift altars and by lay people for personal prayer. In the upper row, the Virgin and Child are surrounded by Old Testament prophets who hold scrolls with passages foretelling Christ's birth: Habakkuk (?), Micah, Jeremiah, Moses, Daniel, David, Solomon, Jonah, Jacob, Isaiah (?), Gedeon, and Zechariah. Below, the adult Christ is seated on the throne of judgment, flanked by holy persons who entreat him to forgive our sins. On his right are the Virgin, St. Peter, Metropolitan Peter of Moscow, St. Sergius of Radonezh (a famous Russian hermit), and St. George. On his left stand John the Baptist, St. Paul, Metropolitan Alexis of Moscow, St. Cyril of Belozersk (another renowned Russian monk), and St. Demetrius.

title: Raphael The Prophets Hosea and Jonah - Google Art Project

artist: Raphael

date: circa 1510

medium: pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white and squared for transfer on laid paper

dimensions: w20 x h26 cm

current location: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

credit: 0wE8LhX6qoO7JQ at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level

title: Effigies of the Twelve Prophets, According to Raffaello Schiaminossi

artist: unknown

date: 1700

medium: ru 1=Рукописи fr 1=Manuscrits en 1=Manuscripts zh 1=手稿 pt 1=Manuscritos ar 1=مخطوطات es 1=Manuscritos

dimensions: en 1=14 sheets, paper : illustrations ; 24 x 18 centimeters

current location: ru|1=Государственная библиотека Баварии fr|1=Bibliothèque d’État de Bavière en|1=Bavarian State Library zh|1=巴伐利亚州立图书馆 pt|1=Biblioteca Estatal da Baviera ar|1=مكتبة ولاية بافاريا es|1=Biblioteca Estatal de Baviera

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description: This small volume from the Bavarian State Library contains depictions of 12 prophets of the Old Testament: Jeremiah, Moses, Zechariah, Ezekiel, Hosea, Isaiah, David, Amos, Jonah, Micah, Daniel, and Joel. Monumental, with commanding demeanor fitting their functions as seers and admonitors, the prophets appear in wide cloaks flowing amply around them in the drawings, which are crafted in ink with great verve. With spiritual expressions on their faces, they seem to stare at the spectator. Each leaf is signed RAF by the artist Raffaello Schiaminossi (1572–1622), a master of drawing and etching from Sansepolcro in Tuscany. The beautiful red morocco leather binding with gold embossing carries the coat of arms (as a supralibros) of Clement XI (pope 1700–1721), born Giovanni Francesco Albani, the owner of a world famous art collection housed in the Albani Palazzo del Drago alle Quattro Fontane in Rome. The collection was structured according to certain principles derived from Raphael’s theories of art. The binding of this book is much simpler than the well-known Roman bindings from the Albani library and, on closer inspection, the drawings also prove to be copies of engravings by Schiaminossi, crafted by a German artist. The work thus appears to be an ingenious fake, made around 1700, which came into the Bavarian State Library via the art trade in the 19th century. The mystery of the fake has not been solved.
Bible. Old Testament; prophets

title: The Sibyls and Prophets Foretelling Christ the Savior

artist: unknown

date: between 1490 and 1500

medium: ru 1=Рукописи fr 1=Manuscrits en 1=Manuscripts zh 1=手稿 pt 1=Manuscritos ar 1=مخطوطات es 1=Manuscritos

dimensions: en 1=23 sheets, parchment : color illustrations ; 25 x 17.5 centimeters

current location: ru|1=Государственная библиотека Баварии fr|1=Bibliothèque d’État de Bavière en|1=Bavarian State Library zh|1=巴伐利亚州立图书馆 pt|1=Biblioteca Estatal da Baviera ar|1=مكتبة ولاية بافاريا es|1=Biblioteca Estatal de Baviera

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description: This manuscript, entitled Sibyllae et prophetae de Christo Salvatore vaticinantes (The sibyls and prophets foretelling Christ the Savior), is possibly a product of the workshop of the French illuminator Jean Poyer (circa 1445–1504) of Tours. The sibyls were female seers from the ancient world whose prophecies it was thought foretold the coming of Christ. This work consists of 25 large illuminations: a depiction of Noah's ark and 12 double-page spreads. The left side of each of the double pages depicts one of the sibyls, who is paired on the right side with a scene from the life of Christ and the history of salvation that she was said to have prophesied. The scenes on the right are accompanied by an Old Testament prophet and an evangelist. The manuscript probably was acquired by Elector Maximilian I of Bavaria (1573–1651), more as a work of art than a book. It therefore was kept in the elector’s art collection. Only in 1785 was it incorporated into the library.
Illuminations; Jesus Christ; prophets

title: Prophets and Saints in Glory, after Bernardino Poccetti MET DP801492

artist:

date: 1735–90

medium: Black chalk

dimensions: 8-3/8 x 12-1/2 in. (21.2 x 31.8 cm)

current location: Institution:Metropolitan Museum of Art

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title: The Prophet Samuel, from Prophets and Sibyls MET DP835434

artist: Francesco Rosselli

date: 1480–90

medium: Engraving

dimensions: Sheet: 11 1/2 × 7 15/16 in. (29.2 × 20.2 cm) Plate: 6 15/16 × 4 3/16 in. (17.7 × 10.7 cm)

current location: Institution:Metropolitan Museum of Art

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title: Duccio di Buoninsegna, The Nativity with the Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel, 1308 1311, NGA 10

artist: Duccio di Buoninsegna

date: c. 1482/1485

medium: tempera on single poplar panel

dimensions: painted surface (left side image): 43 × 16 cm (16 15/16 × 6 5/16 in.) painted surface (center image): 43 × 43.9 cm (16 15/16 × 17 5/16 in.) painted surface (right side image): 43 × 16 cm (16 15/16 × 6 5/16 in.) overall (including original frame): 48 × 86.8 × 7.9 cm (18 7/8 × 34 3/16 × 3 1/8 in.)

current location: Institution:National Gallery of Art

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