Saint Peter
c. 1547
- Medium
- chiaroscuro woodcut printed in four shades of brown
- Dimensions
- 41.2 × 21.4 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-203795
Beccafumi was an important and extremely versatile Sienese artist––a painter of altarpieces, frescoes, and furniture, a sculptor in wood, stucco, and bronze, and a designer of a large portion of the inlaid marble floor in the Siena Cathedral. He was also one of the most imaginative, daring, and versatile printmakers of the Italian Renaissance. Although his first prints were engravings, in order to reproduce the rich, tonal effects of his drawings, Beccafumi began to make chiaroscuro woodcuts. Around 1547, he completed a series of six chiaroscuros of the apostles, including Saint Peter. These …
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2002.9
Registry history
- c. 1547 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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