- Title:
- Saint Peter
- Object name(s):
- Picture; Italian
- Brief description:
- This is a fragment of a painting made in the fresco technique, which involves applying paint to wet plaster. Once dried, the painting becomes part of the wall. It shows a bearded saint -- identifiable by his halo -- shown in profile, and comes from the church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence. It may have formed part of the decoration of the chapel dedicated to Saint Andrew.The remains of various frescoes were discovered in the chapel in 1859. This one was bought by the archaeologist and explorer, Austen Henry Layard, who left it to the National Gallery in his will. Layard was a founder of the Arundel Society, which aimed to document frescoes in Italian churches and palaces through drawings and art-historical descriptions.This fragment is in very poor condition. It is covered in tiny dents, probably caused by air bubbles that erupted as the plaster was drying. It is slightly concave, perhaps due to its position in the chapel: it might have decorated a vault in the ceiling.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1916-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1916
- Date - latest:
- 1916
- Acquisition source:
- Sir Austen Henry Layard
- Associated concept:
- religious imagery
- Associated concept:
- saints (unidentified)
- Credit line:
- Layard Bequest, 1916
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 3/979/921/490/mid_N-3120-00-000012.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 42.80
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 32.80
- Form:
- None
- Material:
- fresco
- Material:
- fresco
- Object name:
- Picture; Italian (Florentine)
- Object production date:
- 1350s
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1350
- Date - latest:
- 1359
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1350-99
- Object production person:
- Italian, Florentine
- Object production place:
- Italy
- Object production place:
- Florence
- Other number:
- NG3120
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0G5T-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG3120
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-04TT-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng33120
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Owner:
- Sir Austen Henry Layard
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- Gothic
- Style:
- early Renaissance
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Italian Paintings before 1400
- Reference details:
- 202-3
- Reference note:
- Latest catalogue
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Earlier Italian Schools
- Reference details:
- 188
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Earlier Italian Schools
- Reference details:
- 146
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 339
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Early Italian Schools before 1400
- Reference details:
- 25
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- A New History of Painting in Italy: From the Second to the Sixteenth Century
- Reference details:
- 1.365
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Storia della pittura in Italia dal secolo II al secolo XVI
- Reference details:
- 2.35
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Ragionamento intorno all'antica chiesa del Carmine di Firenze
- Reference details:
- 13
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery: Catalogue of the Pictures at Trafalgar Square
- Reference details:
- 99
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
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Use licence for this record: CC BY
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