Shown from the hips up, a pale-skinned, bearded man holds two oversized gold skeleton keys and a book in front of a gold background in this vertical painting, which has a triangular top. The person’s body is angled slightly to our right, but he looks off to our left from the corners of his brown eyes. He has a thin nose with a rounded tip, full pink lips, and full gray beard. His gray hair is cut into a ring around his head. He wears a sky-blue robe, and his buttercup-yellow cloak is lined with coral red. Both are edged with gold. He braces the book, which has a moss-green cover and white…
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Saint Peter, with Saint James Major [left panel]

painter Martino di Bartolomeo (Sienese, active 1393/1434)

c. 1415/1420

Medium
tempera on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
painted surface: 92.71 × 44.77 cm (36 1/2 × 17 5/8 in.) ; original panel: 102.24 × 45.24 × 4.13 cm (40 1/4 × 17 13/16 × 1 5/8 in.) ; overall (with added wood strips): 106.05 × 54.61 × 4.13 cm (41 3/4 × 21 1/2 × 1 5/8 in.) ; depth…
Culture
Sienese
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Gift of Samuel L. Fuller
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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