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Artwork of St. Peter the Apostle
Collected by Dr. Ralph F. Wilson
Anthony Van Dyke (Flemish painter,1599-1641) Penitent Apostle Peter (1617-1618), Oil on canvas, Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia. Larger image. |
There are many depictions of St. Peter over the centuries. These are some of my favorites.
St. Peter, from a mosaic icon in naves of the Patriarchal Basilica of St. Paul: Outside the Wall, The Vatican.
Crucifixion of St. Peter
- Filippino Lippi (1457-1504), "Crucifixion of Peter" (1481-82) fresco, 230 x 598 cm., Cappella Brancacci, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, Italy.
- Caravaggio (1573-1610), "The Crucifixion of St. Peter" (1600-1601),with dramatic lighting, oil on canvas, 2300mm x 1750mm, Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome.
Peter Walking on the Water
- Alessandro Allori (1535-1607), Peter Walking on Water (1590s), oil on copper, 18x15 in., Ufizi Gallery, Florence.
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
- Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), "St Peter and St John Healing the Cripple" (1513), engraving, 118 x 74 mm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
- Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), "Jesus Washing Peter's Feet" (1508-1509), The Small Passion series, small woodcut, 12.7 x 10 cm., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, British Museum, London.
Rembrandt Hamerszoon van Rijn (1606-1669), Dutch painter
- The Apostle Peter (1632), oil on canvas, 81.3 x 66.2 cm Nationalmuseum, Stockolm.
- "St. Peter in Prison" (1631) Oil on panel, 59x47.8 cm, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Peter kneels bathed in light, though his lonliness in prison is accentuated by the surrounding space. Notice his trademark "keys to the kingdom" next to him on the straw.
- Two Old Men Disputing (St. Peter and St. Paul in Conversation, 1628), oil on wood, 72.4 x 59.7 cm, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AU. Another.
Gustave Doré
- Gustave Doré, St. Peter Delivered from Prison (Acts 12:7-8)
- Gustave Doré, St Peter Denying Christ
Filippino Lippi (1457-1504)
- Filippino Lippi (1457-1504), "Crucifixion of Peter" (1481-82) fresco, 230 x 598 cm., Cappella Brancacci, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, Italy.
- "St. Peter Freed from Prison," by Florentine painter Filippino Lippi (1457-1504), fresco, 230 x 88 cm, Cappella Brancacci, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence.
Fra Angelico (ca. 1400-1455)
- Transfiguration of Christ (ca. 1441), by Florentine painter and Dominican friar Fra Angelico, Fresco, 181 x 152 cm, Museo di San Marco, Cell 6, Florence, Italy. Peter seems to be crouching at the bottom left.
- Fra Angelico. Peter Martyr Enjoins Silence. c.1441. Fresco inside a monk's cell, 108 x 145. Museo di San Marco, Florence, Italy.
Gerard (Gerrit) van Honthorst (1590–1656)
- De verloochening door Petrus (ca. 1620), olie op doek (150 × 197 cm), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes
- The Denial of St. Peter (c. 1623), oil on canvas, 43 1/2 x 57 in., Minneapolis Institute of Arts
- The Liberation of St. Peter, canvas 129x179 cm Gemäldegalerie. BerlÃn. Alemania
Peter Paul Reubens
- Saint Peter (1605-1615), studio of Peter Paul Rubens, oil on panel, 92 x 67.5 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
- Peter Paul Reubens, Saint Peter (1610-12), oil on panel, 42x32", Museo del Prado
Other Painters
- Hendrick Terbrugghen, The Denial of St. Peter (c. 1628), oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago
- Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, St. Peter Repentant (1823-25), oil on canvas, 29 x 25.5 cm, Phillips Collection, Washington
- Anthony Van Dyke (Flemish painter,1599-1641), Penitent Apostle Peter (1617-1618), Oil on canvas, Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia
- Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787), St. Peter, Basildon Park, National Trust, UK. Also portraits of St. Matthew, St. John, and St. Paul
- Giotto (1267-1337), St. Peter Tondo (1290s), fresco, 19.6 x 19.6 in, Basilica of San Francesco, Upper Basilica, Assisi, Italy.
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St. Peter the Apostle, St. Catherine's Monastery, Sinai probably from Constantinople mid-6th to early 7th century, encaustic painting on wood, 36.5" x 21".
- "St Peter Healing the Sick with his Shadow," by Masaccio (1401-1427?), the first great painter of the Italian Renaissance. This is part of a series in fresco for the Brancacci Chapel in Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence (about 1427). It depicts an event in Peter's life described in Acts 5:15.
- Michelangelo (1475-1564), detail from "The Last Judgment" (1534-41), fresco altarpiece at one end of the Sistene Chapel, Vatican, Rome. St. Peter is identified by the keys he is carrying, a reference to Matthew 16:19.
José Ribera (Guiseppe (Jusepe) de Ribera, 1588-1652),
- Saint Peter and Saint Paul (1616), oil on canvas, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg
- Denial of St. Peter (1616), oil on canvas, 64x91 in, Galleria Natzionale d'Aret Antica
- Apostle St. Peter (1630-35), 75x64 cm, Museo del Prado
- The Penitent Saint Peter (1630-40), oil on canvas, 93 x 70.5 cm, Museo Soumaya - Mexico.
El Greco
- St. Peter in Penitence (1580s), oil on canvas 109x90 cm, Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle
- St. James the Less (1586-1590), Art Institute of Chicago. Another.
Statues of St. Peter
- St. Peter with Keys, marble statue in the Antwerp Cathedral.
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