This painting depicts a man with light skin, white hair, and a white beard wearing an orange cloth draped over a dark-blue garment with gold embroidery around the shoulder and neckline. He holds two large red keys in his left hand, and a thin, red, cross-topped rod in his right hand. There is a faint outline of a halo around the man's head, which is slightly turned to the right. The background is gold, enclosed within a red, white, and black patterned border.
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Saint Peter

painter Grifo di Tancredi (Italian, active 1271 - 1303 (or possibly 1328))

c. 1310

Medium
tempera on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface (top of gilding): 61.5 × 34.5 cm (24 3/16 × 13 9/16 in.) ; painted surface (including painted border): 64.2 × 34.5 cm (25 1/4 × 13 9/16 in.) ; overall: 66.2 × 36.6 × 1 cm (26 1/16 × 14 7/16 × 3/8 in.)
Culture
Florentine
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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