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Description: | Figure of Sibylla Delphica, priestess of Apollo, standing dressed in classical drapery in bright orange, her hair secured in a blue headscarf. She stands facing the viewer, with her head turned to the left, looking at laurel leaves which she holds in her right hand, a stem of the same plant in her left hand. A tripod altar burns behind her, on the left, incense smoke rising high. The scene is set in a temple, with marble floors and doorway behind on the left. In an renaissance style elaborate frame with moulded plaster relief decoration.
Technique: oil on panel
medium: oil paint
Sibylla Delphica by Sir Edward C. Burne-Jones, 1886 (circa), (1886.5). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.110 | Go to resource |
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