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 *hagen Gallery; Cattle Pasture, Old Pinakothek, Munich.—Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Gaz. des B. Arts (1872), vi. 497; Rooses (Reber), 412; Van den Branden, 1064.

SIBYL, the name applied to reputed prophetesses of the mythical period, some of whom are said to have foretold the coming of Christ to the Gentiles. There are ten or more of them, and they are generally named from their habitations; as, Cimmerian, from the Black Sea; Cumæan, from Cumæ in Campania; Delphian, from Delphi; Erythræan, from Erythræa in Asia Minor; Hellespontian (sometimes called Trojan), from the Hellespont; Libyan, from Libya; Persian, from Persia; Phrygian, from Phrygia; Samian, from Samos; Tiburtine, from Tibur (Tivoli). They do not appear in art earlier than the fourteenth century.

SIBYL, CUMÆAN, Domenichino, Palazzo Borghese, Rome. Wears an immense turban, eyes raised and mouth open. Head and draperies well drawn and coloured. In respect to accessories superior to the repetitions at the Capitol and in the Modena Museum. Engraved by P. Fontana.—Lavice, 335, 354; Viardot, 239.

By Guido Reni, Uffizi, Florence; canvas, half-figure. Eyes raised, and resting her chin on one hand; she holds in the other a paper, on which is written her prediction of Christ's advent—"Nascetur de Virgine." Other Cumæan Sibyls by Guido are in the Brussels and Vienna Museums, the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, and the Palazzo Brignole Sale, Genoa.—Soc. Ed. et Paris, Pl. 177; Lavice, 47.

By Elihu Vedder, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass. She is hurrying along, her garments blown by the wind swinging before her, in the centre of a landscape with a range of mountains resembling the Abruzzi in the distance.

SIBYL, PERSIAN, Guercino, Capitol Gallery, Rome; half-figure. She leans her head on the back of one hand and holds a pen in the other. An open book lies before her. Colour, drapery, and effect of light excellent; one of the master's best pictures. Engraved by Ant. Perfetti; A. Cunego; J. V. Kauperz; P. Fontana; Gio. Berselli.—Lavice, 331.

SIBYL, SAMIAN, Guercino, Uffizi, Florence; canvas, H. 3 ft. 7 in. × 2 ft. 11 in. Standing, half-length, with her hands on an open book. She wears a picturesque turban and bands of pearls in her hair. Painted in 1651 for Mattia de' Medici; bought in 1777 for Gallery. Engraved by Ant. Perfetti; Levillain; J. Rivera.—Molini, Gal. di Firenze, ii. 125; Soc. Ed., Gal. di Firenze, Pl. 133; Wicar, i., Part 3; Lavice, 33.

SIBYL, TIBURTINE, Garofalo, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; wood, H. 2 ft. × 1 ft. 3 in. The Sibyl revealing to the Emperor Augustus the Mystery of the Incarnation. She is standing pointing with one hand to the Virgin and Child, who, with two angels, are seen above; Augustus is kneeling, with his crown on the earth beside him.

Subject treated also by Paris Bordone, Venice Academy.

SIBYL, ZAMBETHA (Sambetha), Hans Memling, Hospital of St. John, Bruges; wood, H. 1 ft. 3 in. × 10 in. A bust portrait of a Flemish damsel, in the high peaked cap of the close of the 15th century. Supposed to be the portrait of one of the daughters of William Moreel, a patrician of Bruges, whose portrait and that of his wife, now in the Brussels Museum, were painted by Memling in the same year, 1480.—C. & C., Flemish Painters, 276; Beffroi, ii. 182.

SIBYLLA PALMIFERA (Sibyl with the Palm), Dante Gabriel Rossetti, George Rae, Birkenhead, England; canvas, life-size, three-quarter length. Illustrative of Rossetti's sonnet of same title. Seated figure of a virgin, in crimson dress, with green scarf over her hair, holding a palm before the shrine of worship; beside her burns a lamp, its flame rising toward a rose garland hanging near the sculptured head of a cherub; on the other side smoke ascends from a thurible in circles towards a death's head, over which is a wreath of poppies; above, a festoon of olive boughs and a sphinx in