Artwork of St. Peter the Apostle

Collected by Dr. Ralph F. Wilson

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The Penitent Apostle Peter, by Anthony Van Dyke
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 medallion icon of the popes in the nave of the Patriarchal Basilica of St. Paul: Outside the Wall, Rome.
St. Peter, from a mosaic medallion icon of the popes in the nave of the Patriarchal Basilica of  St. Paul: Outside the Wall, Rome.

St. Peter, from a mosaic medallion icon of the popes in the nave of the Patriarchal Basilica of  St. Paul: Outside the Wall, Rome.

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.
  • Jose Antoilinez, "Crucifixion of St. Peter" (1600), oil on canvas, 110x84 cm, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London.

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)

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

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)

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

Hans Memling (1433-1494)

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.

  • 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),

El Greco

Pasquale Ottini (attributed)

"The Martyrdom of St Peter" (1914), stained glass, Church of St Peter and St Paul, Newport, Shropshire, UKSister Margaret Agnes Rope (1882-1953), British Arts and Crafts pioneer, Carmelite nun.


Bertel Thorvaldsen, detail of 'Peter,' Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen.

Domenico Fetti

Statues of St. Peter

 

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