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Sibylla Cumana

Sibylla Cumana

5044B
Artist
Follower of Bernardo Bitti (1548-1610) and Sebastián Acostopa Inca
Title
Sibylla Cumana
Date
1614 (carving by the follower of Bernardo Bitti) and 1618 (gilt and painting by Sebastián Acostopa)
Medium
Polychrome and gilt wood
Location
Retablo de Nuestra Señora de Copacabana (now Retablo de Santa Teresa de Lisieux), Santuario de Nuestra Señora, Copacabana, Bolivia.
Photo Source
Vila da Vila (2021)
Correspondence Credit
Vila da Vila (2021) and Almerindo Ojeda
Note
Engravings by Crispijn de Passe I, Jacques Granthomme, Thomas de Leu,  Pierre Firens, and Pietro Paolo Tossi could have served as sources for this carving. Yet, only the engraving by Firens inscribes the sybil in an oval rather than a circular field (as does the carved image). As to the text surrounding the carved image, only the engravings by de Leu, van de Passe, and Tossi lack the word DEMOPHILE (as does the carving). We thus consider the Firens engraving as the source for the iconography and select the de Leu engraving (over the van de Passe and Tossi engravings) as the source for the text of this artwork, as only the de Leu engravings match the texts of all the carved sibyls. Also, both the Firens and the de Leu engravings were issued by Jean Leclerc IV under the same title page.
Item
5044B
Correspondences
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