# Caesar Augustus and the Tiburtine Sibyl [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [UNKNOWN MASTER, Netherlandish]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Panel, 69 x 85 cm ## Commentary Caesar Augustus and the Tiburtine Sibyl c. 1475 Panel, 69 x 85 cm Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt The anonymous painter of this panel may have trained in Haarlem, but his attributed works seem to have all been produced in Leuven. He was one of the most skillful follower of Dieric Bouts the Elder. He is referred to as the master of the Tiburtine Sibyl after the present painting in which Caesar Augustus consults the Tiburtine Sibyl, asking her if there would ever be a man greater than himself. According to legend, the seer responded that on the very day a child was born of a virgin, who would become the king of kings. She pointed to the Ara Coeli, a heavenly altar seen in the sky as a sign. ## Related artworks - [A Bathhouse]() - [A Cistercian Abbot]() - [Bellows with the Fight into Egypt]() - [Calvary of Hendrik van Rijn]() - [Canticum Canticorum]() - [Combat between the Actor and the Age]() - [Commemorative Medal]() - [Eighteen Scenes from the Life of Christ]() - [Emblem]() - [Four Canons with Sts Augustine and Jerome, with the Visitation]() - [Interior of a Gothic Church]() - [Joachim and Anne]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()