''Sibyl and Prophet'' is a grisaille

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painting by Andrea Mantegna c. 1495. It is now in the Cincinnati Art Museum.

History

Mantegna produced several grisailles in the last eleven years of his life; this style imitated relief sculpture and was then popular in the Mantuan court due to the duchy's lack of major sculptors and stone quarries. Possibly a fragment from a larger work, it was probably a commission by Isabella d'Este for her apartments and shows a sibyl in a crown and toga debating with a bearded

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prophet who holds the scroll they are discussing. Tatjana Pauli, ''Mantegna'', Leonardo Arte, Milano, 2001.

References

{{Cincinnati Art Museum Paintings by Andrea Mantegna Collection of the Cincinnati Art Museum 1490s paintings