SIBUNDOY, APOSTOLIC VICARIATE OF. — By a decree of 8 February 1951 from the Apostolic Vicariate of Caquetá (q.v.) in Colombia, the region known as the “Intendencia de Caquetá” was detached to form the Apostolic Vicariate of Florencia, and also the region called
THE HOLY TRINITY IN FLORENCE. In the same way, four Sibyls are depicted in the vault of the Baglioni Chapel in the collegiate church at Spello, frescoed there in 1501 by Pinturicchio, who also adorned with four Sibyls the decoration of the ceiling in the apse of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome, executed by him in 1508. The Sibyls and prophets painted in the Borgia apartment in the Vatican Palace are the work of Pinturicchio’s workshop. On the walls of the Collegio del Cambio in Perugia, Perugino painted six Sibyls together with six prophets beneath the Eternal Father in Glory; among these Sibyls, the Libyan one is attributed to the collaboration of the young Raphael.
The most famous depiction of the Sibyls is certainly that by Michelangelo (q.v.), frescoed on the vault of the Sistine Chapel; five of them (the Erythraean, Persian, Delphic, Cumaean, and Libyan) are seen there alternating with seven prophets. Two years later than the Sistine vault is Raphael’s fresco in the church of Santa Maria della Pace in Rome, where four Sibyls (Cumaean, Persian, Phrygian, and Tiburtine) are grouped with various putti in a harmonious elegiac scene. On the vault of the Carafa Chapel in the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome there are four Sibyls painted in the early 16th century by Raffaellino del Garbo. In the church of Fontegiusta in Siena, a fresco by Baldassarre Peruzzi, datable to 1528, depicts the Tiburtine Sibyl announcing to Emperor Augustus the birth of Our Lord. The mediocre Sibyl, carved in marble by Raffaello da Montelupo, which is seen in the upper part of the funerary monument of Julius II in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome, seems to be the last depiction of the ancient prophetesses in sacred art. Also noteworthy is the splendid painting by Dosso Dossi with the sorceress Circe, conceived as a grand image of a Sibyl, preserved in the Galleria Borghese in Rome. — See pl. XXIX.