"Sybille de Cummes" is a famous painting of the Italian artist Michelangelo Buonarotti ( 1475 - 1564 ). It is on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican. Sybils were female seers of ancient Greece and Rome. The Cumean Sibyl was the priestress presiding over the Apollonian oracle at Cumae, a Greek colony located near Naples ( Italy ).
The renaissance values that are embodied in the "Sibylle de Cummes":
- Renaissance artists looked back to ancient Greece and Rome and sought to revive the values and traditions of these cultures.
- Realism in the presentation of the human faces and bodies.
- Individualism, focus on unique qualities of the individual person.
- Three dimensional, creating depth and form to replace the flat, two-dimensional surfaces that characterized medieval pictures.
- The development of linear perspective.
- Attention to details.
