The Prophet Joel; from the series of Prophets and Sibyls in the Sistine Chapel

Giorgio Ghisi Italian
 After Michelangelo Buonarroti Italian
 Publisher Pietro Facchetti Italian

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As explained by Boorsch (in Boorsch, Lewis and Lewis 1985, p. 164) the dates of 1540 and 1549 engraved on some of the plates from the series is false. The plates should rather be dated to the early 1570s.

The Prophet Joel; from the series of Prophets and Sibyls in the Sistine Chapel, Giorgio Ghisi (Italian, Mantua ca. 1520–1582 Mantua), Engraving; third state of five

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