Footnote *195: Timoteo painted the Prophets above the Sibyls in S.
The repeated restorations to which this fine work has been subjected render criticism of its merits in a degree nugatory, but the inferiority of the Prophets to the Sibyls is generally admitted.
These sibyls were believed to be inspired, and generations of Greek and Roman philosophers never doubted their power.
Cumae, Greece, Egypt, Babylon, and all places where either the sibyls still lived, or their oracles were preserved.
You must accompany me in a few days to Cumae, where we will seek an interview with her, upon the subject concerning which all the Sibyls sing and prophesy--the general reparation of this disorder-tortured world.
The Prophets and Sibyls took the positions occupied by the principal figures designed for the Tomb, like the great statue of Moses.
Five large figures of Sibyls; these Prophets and Sibyls would be eighteen feet high if they stood upright, and most of them have secondary figures of angel boys between them, twenty-three in all.
Angelo divinely made us understand and divided into histories how God first created the world, with many images of Sibyls and figures of exceedingly great artistic beauty and artifice.
Their subjects were taken from the Book of Genesis, with great figures of sibyls and prophets.
On any other occasion the speed of these reverend sibyls would have been much more moderate, for the first was eighty years of age and upwards, the second was paralytic, and the third lame of a leg from some accident.
And thus, croaking like the ravens when they anticipate pestilence, the ill-boding sibyls withdrew from the churchyard.
Michael Angelo's Sibyls and Prophets are old and wrinkled, bowed with thought, consumed by vigils, startled from tranquillity by visions, overburdened with the messages of God.
His theme is nothing less than the burden of the prophets and the Sibyls who preached the coming of a light upon the world, and the condemnation of the world which had rejected it, by an inexorable judge.
Remaining within the circuit of Rome, we may turn from the sibyls of S.
Plato, Malachi, and Hosea are all represented by the same cut, another serves for both Jeremiah and Zechariah, and two of the Sibyls are also made to merge their individualities.
His sibyls can scarcely be counted as women; they belong to a world of their own, neither human nor divine.
In former times, fact and fable were very often confused, and people did not take pains to distinguish the legends of the sibyls from the history of the prophets.
The number of sibyls was given as ten or twelve, and of these Michelangelo selected five.
In the prevailing opinion, the sibyls shared with the prophets an inspired foreknowledge of the Christian faith.
One had a Holy Family of Raphael in hand; and the Sibyls of Guercino and Domenichino were hanging on the wall, apparently ready to be put into mosaic.
Illustration] The Sibyls were maidens who had received the gift of prophecy, and the privilege of living to an incredible age.
The belief that the sibyls had prophesied the advent of Christ made their images popular.
The place was called in tribus fatis, from the three statues of sibyls described by Pliny, H.
Prophets and sibyls appear also in Renaissance monuments; they were modelled by della Porta in the Santa Casa at Loretto, painted by Michelangelo in the Sistine chapel, by Raphael in S.
The Delphian and Erythrean Sibylsare superb in their majesty.
On the pendentives between the spaces of the windows, running up to the ends of each of the five lesser pictures, Michelangelo placed alternate prophets and sibyls upon firm projecting consoles.
Five sibyls and five prophets run along the side-walls of the chapel.
The Delphian, Erythrean, and Libyan Sibyls display a sublime sense of facial beauty.
On lofty ceilings vivid frescoes glow, Auroras beam, The steeds of Neptune through the waters go, Or Sibyls dream.
The sibyls themselves, as they read or write or look upwards in an ecstasy, are much more elaborate in dress and fashion of hair than the symbolical figures in the Vatican.
The stately Fathers of the Church sit on throned seats like those of the Arts and Sciences, or the Sibyls at Spello.
The Madonna is raised on a throne which recalls the niches in which the Arts in the Borgia Apartments and the sibyls in the Baglioni Chapel are placed.
In style, they approach more nearly to the sibyls afterwards painted in the choir of Santa Maria del Popolo, or to the personages in the Library at Siena.
It may be inferred that this hymn, admitted into the liturgy of the Roman Church, gave sanction to the adoption of the sibyls into Christian art.
But the highest honour that art has rendered to the sibyls has been by the hand of Michael Angelo, on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
In the prophets and sibyls around the cupola of the Madonna di Campagna, Piacenza, Pardenone's power is fully proven.
In the recesses between the prophets andsibyls are a series of lovely family groups, representing the genealogy of the Virgin, and expressive of calm expectation of the future.
In this respect, the sibyls on the Sistine Chapel ceiling are more Michael Angelesque than their companions the prophets.
The prophets and sibyls in the triangular compartments of the curved portion of the ceiling are the largest figures in the whole work; these, too, are among the most wonderful forms that modern art has called into life.
The lower portion of the ceiling is divided into triangles, occupied by the Prophets and Sibyls in solemn contemplation, accompanied by angels and genii.
In the adjoining Cappella del Cambio are some sibyls and children, said to be Raffaelle's, but the work in these has evidently been much retouched.
The Sibyls are sometimes introduced alternately with the Prophets.
Of the Prophets and the Sibyls who attend on Christ in his character of the Messiah or Redeemer, I shall have much to say, when describing the artistic treatment of the history and character of Our Lord.
The Sibyls were much the fashion in the classic times of the sixteenth century; Michael Angelo and Raphael have left us consummate examples.
But I must repeat that the full consideration of the Prophets and Sibyls as accessories belongs to another department of sacred art, and they will find their place there.
The personal character and history of the Sibyls will be treated in detail in the fourth series of Sacred and Legendary Art.
The East door by Ghiberti contains prophets and sibylsin niches between the ten panels that illustrate episodes of the Old Testament.
Tribolo, an intimate friend of Benvenuto Cellini, was responsible for the beautiful angels and sibyls round the arch of that on the left hand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sibyls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
