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Michelangelo and the Sibyls

November 13, 2017

Not only do the sibyls show up in the Requiem mass, they’re also on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Pagan priestesses? In a Christian chapel in the Vatican?

Michelangelo. Sistine Chapel. Five Sibyls.

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In Early Music Monday Tags Sacred or Secular?, Sibyls, History, Prophetiae Sibyllarum
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