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St. Peter

Technical Details
  • Title
    St. Peter
  • Author
    Fra' Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)
  • Year
    c. 1455
  • Dimensions
    cm 140 x 48
  • Inventory
    6126
  • Room
    V
Here we see St. Peter front of an architectural background, with no presence of the sky or nature, but sculpted in three-dimensional space. Saint Peter is elderly, with the two keys of the church, standing on dry ground strewn with small stones, carefully detailed. Compare Fra Carnevale to the Polittico of Praglia by Antonio Vivarini and Giovanni d’Alemagna in Room IV nearby. Here we still have one foot in the late Gothic world where everything is much more synthetic.

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