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Sibyl Reading with a Child Holding a Torch

1518–27
chiaroscuro woodcut

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

The large number of surviving prints of this subject suggests it was one of the most repeated Italian chiaroscuro woodcut designs.

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