Vatican Museums

As if distracted from reading the scroll by an external factor, perhaps a vision, she turns her glance in the opposite direction to the rotation of her body. Both her eyes and her mouth which is just slightly open, seem in fact to demonstrate her sudden emotion before a new event which the rest of her body still resists, blocked in its previous state of calm, as are two young people near her. The Delphic Sibyl was among the most admired of the Sibyls because of her physical and ideal beauty.