Plaque with Sybila Lvbica (Libyan Sibyl)

1535-1540 (Renaissance)

10.7 cm 22.7 cm

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One of a set of twenty-one plaques. The Libyan Sibyl carries a lighted torch alluding to the illumination of darkness at the advent of the Savior. In late medieval and renaissance iconography she was associated with Jeremias.

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Beurdeley Sale, April 9, 1883, no. 9; H. G. Marquand Sale, New York, Janaury 23, 1903, no. 1061.
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