Twenty-one Plaques Depicting Prophets, Apostles and Sibyls

ca. 1535-1540 (late Renaissance)

10.5 cm 23 cm

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The idea of juxtaposing the prophets with the Apostles stems from the medieval passion for showing how the events and figures of the Old Testament prefigure those of the New Testament. The sibyls were ancient prophets who, though known to the artists of the Middle Ages, were n...

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Beurdeley Sale, April 9, 1883, no. 98; H. G. Marquand Sale, New York, January 23, 1903, no. 1061; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1903, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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