# The Cumaean Sibyl \(detail\)

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## Artwork

- Artist: [MICHELANGELO Buonarroti](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/michelangelo-buonarroti-r3de9890382970b>)
- Date: 1501-1550
- Technique: Fresco

## Commentary

The Cumaean Sibyl is depicted as a massively built old woman, with a dark complexion and a wrinkled face, completely absorbed in the difficult task of ddecipheriong the meaning of what she is reading in the large book, which rests next to her on the side of the marble throne.

## Related artworks

- [A Man Lifting a Boar onto his Shoulder \(verso\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/michelangelo-buonarroti-r3de9890382970b/a-man-lifting-a-boar-onto-his-shoulder-verso-r115b841cb7830d>)
- [Abraham - Isaac - Jacob - Judah](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/michelangelo-buonarroti-r3de9890382970b/abraham---isaac---jacob---judah-re59033e00c75bc>)
- [Achim - Eliud \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/michelangelo-buonarroti-r3de9890382970b/achim---eliud-detail-r8732f548c94eeb>)
- [Achim - Eliud \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/michelangelo-buonarroti-r3de9890382970b/achim---eliud-detail-r88d58f08bdbf25>)
- [Achim - Eliud](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/michelangelo-buonarroti-r3de9890382970b/achim---eliud-rdc3468170d2d71>)
- [Aeneas with a Boy \(recto\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/michelangelo-buonarroti-r3de9890382970b/aeneas-with-a-boy-recto-r1b3406e4b4af98>)
- [Allegorical figure](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/michelangelo-buonarroti-r3de9890382970b/allegorical-figure-r75fcb28139de00>)
- [Amminadab \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/michelangelo-buonarroti-r3de9890382970b/amminadab-detail-r49171c9661e417>)
- [Amminadab \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/michelangelo-buonarroti-r3de9890382970b/amminadab-detail-r65ca91139b9ee7>)
- [Amminadab](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/michelangelo-buonarroti-r3de9890382970b/amminadab-re78a9712f2390d>)
- [Ancestors of Christ: figures \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/michelangelo-buonarroti-r3de9890382970b/ancestors-of-christ-figures-detail-r2819d177fc0ff3>)
- [Ancestors of Christ: figures \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/michelangelo-buonarroti-r3de9890382970b/ancestors-of-christ-figures-detail-r52f3f69788f7b7>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)