1610
oil
canvas
From the collection of Capitoline Museums
Cumaean Sibyl is a 1610 oil by Domenichino, a Early Baroque Italian work, depicting Cumaean Sibyl, held at Capitoline Museums.
This painting shows a woman in a red robe and a gold headpiece, holding a scroll. She is sitting and looking up to the left. The woman's clothing is richly detailed, with intricate folds and textures. The background is dark, with a small patch of blue sky visible at the top. The painting is a great example of the artist's skill with light and shadow, particularly in the way the woman's face and hands are illuminated. If you're interested in learning more about this style, you might want to look up the technique of chiaroscuro.
The Sibilla Cumana (Cumaean Sibyl) is an oil painting on canvas by the Italian Baroque painter Domenicho Zampieri (Domenichino) housed in the Capitoline Museum in Rome, Italy.
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The painting appears to be one of four paintings of nearly the same subject by Domenichino, including also works at the Galleria Borghese, a Persian Sibyl at the Wallace Collection in London, a painting in a private Scottish collection and one in a private Bermuda collection. The theme of the Cumaean Sibyl was used by the Bolognese Domenichino likely four times and was a common trope favored by learned patrons in Rome. Patrons could obtain a topic both derived from classical literature and yet voicing an apparent prophesy of the birth of Christ. She is featured Michelangelo's frescoes in the…
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Domenico Zampieri (US: , Italian: ; October 21, 1581 – April 6, 1641), known by the diminutive Domenichino (US: , Italian: ) after his shortness, was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School of painters.
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