The Crucifixion of Saint Peter, after Michelangelo's frescoes in the Pauline Chapel, Vatican Palace
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Plate: 16 7/16 × 12 3/4 in. (41.8 × 32.4 cm) Sheet: 18 7/16 × 14 1/4 in. (46.8 × 36.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.595.17
Tags
Art Historical Context
Behold *The Crucifixion of Peter*, a masterful 16th-century etching and engraving that faithfully reproduces Michelangelo Buonarroti's monumental fresco in the Vatican Palace's Pauline Chapel. by the Renaissance giant between 1542 and 1550, the original captures the dramatic moment of Saint Peter's upside-down martyrdom on a cross, surrounded by anguished figures—men and women witnessing the apostle's sacrifice. This print, created around 1550–60 by Lucchese and Antonio Lafreri, as a vital means to share Michelangelo's vision with a broader audience beyond Rome's elite. Etching and engraving ...
About the Artist
Michelangelo Buonarroti|Michele Lucchese|Antonio Lafreri · 1475–1564
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564) stands as the quintessential figure of the Italian High Renaissance, a sculptor, painter, architect, and poet whose mastery across disciplines embodied the era's humanist ideals. Born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese within the Republic of Florence to a modest family—his father, Lodovico di Buonarroti Simoni, served as a minor magistrate—Michelang...