Feb
11
Michelangelo
‘The Libyan Sybil’
Sistine Chapel Fresco
1510
“I am by birth half mortal, half divine;An immortal nymph was my mother, my father an eater of grain;On my mother’s side of Idaean birth, but my fatherland was redMarpessus, sacred to the Mother, and the river Aidoneus” (Pausanias 10.12.3)
