San Pietro Polyptych
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San Pietro Polyptych | |
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Perugino | |
Year | c. 1496 – 1500 |
Medium | Oil on panel |
Location | Various |
The San Pietro Polyptych (Italian: Polittico di San Pietro) is a
Description
The
The panels were painted between January 1496 and the end of 1499, and the work was solemnly inaugurated on 13 January 1500. Contemporary art historian Giorgio Vasari considered the predella Perugino's best work in his home city.
In 1591 the church's choir was radically restored, and the altar had to be dismantled. After the religious suppressions of 1797, the work was
Description
The cymatium was separated by the main panel by a frame, in the same way of the Vallombrosa Altarpiece. At the sides were two columns which supported the frame arch and which, at the bases, were decorated by three small panels with Saints, sharing the same background.
The polyptych included the following panels:
- Ascension (280 × 216 cm), now at the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon. This work was almost entirely copied by Perugino and his workshop for the later Sansepolcro Altarpiece. The Vallombrosa Altarpiece also used a similar composition, in turn inspired by the now lost Assumption in the Sistine Chapel.
- God in Glory lunette (114 × 230 cm), now at the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon. It represents God in a cloud in the sky, surrounded by seraphim, and two symmetrical angels at the side.
- Tondoes of Jeremy and Isaiah (both 127 cm in diameter), now at the Musée des beaux-arts of Nantes
- Adoration of the Magi (predella panel, 32 × 59 cm). Now at the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Rouen.
- Baptism of Christ (predella panel, 32 × 59 cm). Now at the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Rouen.
- Resurrection (predella panel, 32 × 59 cm). Now at the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Rouen.
- St. Herculanus and St. Constantius (predella panels, 32 × 38 cm). Now at the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria at Perugia.
- St. Maurus, St. Peter ad Vincula, St. Scholastica, St. Benedict, St. Flavia and St. Placidus (panels at the columns base, various sizes). Now at the Pinacoteca Vaticana in Rome.
Sources
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
- Garibaldi, Vittoria (2007). "Perugino". Pittori del Rinascimento. Florence: Scala. ISBN 888117099X.