Twelve Sibyls

Isaac Kremer/ September 20, 2025/ / 0 comments

The twelve Sibyls as depicted in the Medieval and Renaissance periods are as follows. They are supposed to have been prophetesses who uttered Messianic testimony in pagan lands. Examples are seen in the south aisle windows of St. Ouen in Rouen, at Sens at Autun, on the west of the church at Aix, in Michelangelo’s mural paintings in the Sistine Chapel, in Giotto’s Tower at Florence, at St. Jaques’ at Dieppe, and in Raphael’s “Adoration of the Kings.” (Webber, 1927)

1. Persica
2. Libyca
3. Erythraea
4. Cumana
5. Samiana
6. Cimmeriana
7. Europeana
8. Tiburtina
9. Agrippa
10. Delphica
11. Hellespontica
12. Phrygiana