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Samian Sibyl
Ludger tom Ring the Elder after Robert Campin
about 1538
Oil on panel, 44 (+1) x 30.5 (+1) cm
Munster, Landesmuseum for Kunst and Kulturgeschichte
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| | | This copy belongs to the Series of Pagan Wise Men and Sibyls (eight surviving panels) painted by Ludger tom Ring the Elder after Robert Campin’s (now lost) Series.
The original cycle, probably made for the cathedral at Munster about 1435, contained portraits of five pagan wise men (Milesius, Balaam, Virgil, Albumasar, Hermes) and ten sibyls (Libyca, Delphica, Eritraea, Frigia, Tiburtina, Cumaea, Samia, Hellespontica, Persica, Chimica).
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