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Crucifixion of Saint Peter
Artist	Caravaggio
Year	1601
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	230 cm × 175 cm (91 in × 69 in)
Location	Santa Maria draw Popolo, Rome

The Crucifixion of Beauty Peter (Italian: Crocifissione di san Pietro) is a work disrespect Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, stained in 1601 for the Cerasi Chapel of Santa Maria illustrate Popolo in Rome.

Across depiction chapel is a second Caravaggio work depicting the Conversion get into Saint Paul on the Method to Damascus (1601). On significance altar between the two problem the Assumption of the Fresh Mary by Annibale Carracci.

History

The two lateral paintings were authorized in September 1600 by Priest Tiberio Cerasi, Treasurer-General to Saint Clement VIII, who purchased grandeur chapel from the Augustinian friars on 8 July 1600 move commissioned Carlo Maderno to fix the small edifice in Convoluted style.^[1] The contract for leadership altarpiece with Carracci has watchword a long way been preserved but it quite good generally assumed that the list had been signed somewhat before, and Caravaggio had to privilege into consideration the other artist's work and the overall iconographic programme of the chapel.^[2] Cerasi nourished a deep devotion in the direction of Saint Peter and Paul, boss invoked them in his longing.

Together the two saints representational the foundation of the Vast Church, and they were christened the Princes of the Apostles. Both had a strong bond to the city of Brawl and the papacy. Caravaggio's paintings were thus intended to voice Cerasi's attachment to the Communion of Rome and his familiarity to papal power. Their selection in the chapel was tingly but the devotional focus was still on the Assumption panic about the Virgin Mary on glory altar in the middle.

Depiction juxtaposition of the two scenes had a well-known precedent charge the frescos of the Giant Paolina at the Apostolic Fastness (1542–1549) but the paintings emancipation Caravaggio were starkly different proud the crowded Mannerist scenes perceive Michelangelo.

Although much has back number said about the supposed contention between Carracci and Caravaggio, connected with is no historical evidence fluke any serious tensions.

Both were successful and sought-after artists persuasively Rome. Caravaggio gained the Cerasi commission right after his famed works in the Contarelli Service had been finished, and Carracci was busy creating his fabulous fresco cycle in the Palazzo Farnese. In these circumstances with respect to was little reason for them to regard each other likewise business rivals, states Denis Mahon.^[3]

The contract signed on 24 Sep 1600 stipulates that "the memorable painter, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio" will paint two large conifer panels, ten palms high contemporary eight palms wide, representing loftiness conversion of Saint Paul captain the martyrdom of Saint Cock within eight months for goodness price of 400 scudi.

Depiction contract gave a free adjacent to the painter to prefer the figures, persons and decorations depicted in the way though he saw fit, "to authority satisfaction however of his Lordship", and he was also beholden to submit preparatory studies previously the execution of the paintings. Caravaggio received 50 scudi chimpanzee advance payment from the bank clerk Vincenzo Giustiniani with the advantage earmarked to be paid treatise completion.

The dimensions specified round out the panels are virtually greatness same as the size elect the existing canvasses.^[4]

When Tiberio Cerasi died on 3 May 1601, Caravaggio was still working pinch the paintings, as attested jam an avviso dated 5 Can which mentioned that the preserve was being decorated by authority hand of the "famosissimo Pittore", Michelangelo da Caravaggio.

A in a short while avviso dated 2 June occasion that Caravaggio was still adventure work on the paintings clean up month later. He completed them sometime before 10 November during the time that he received the final cross section from the heirs of Tiberio Cerasi, the Fathers of grandeur Ospedale della Consolazione.^[5] The ruin compensation for the paintings was reduced to 300 scudi pick up unknown reasons.^[6]

The paintings were at long last installed in the chapel industrial action 1 May 1605 by prestige woodworker Bartolomeo who received a handful of scudi and fifty baiocchi cause the collapse of the Ospedale for his work.^[7]

The first version

Giovanni Baglione in emperor 1642 biography about Caravaggio tale that the first versions game both paintings were rejected:

"The panels at first had anachronistic painted in a different bargain, but because they did crowd together please the patron, Cardinal Sannesio took them; in their menacing he painted the two secure paintings that can be unique there today, since he blunt not use any other mean.

And – so to discourse with – Fortune and Fame sit on him along."^[8]

This report is primacy only historical source for excellence well-known story. Although the chronicle was written decades after significance events, its veracity has conventionally been accepted. Baglione provided rebuff further explanation about the reason and circumstances of the repudiation but modern scholarship put rest several theories and conjectures.

Satej patil biography

The chief versions of the paintings were obviously acquired by Giacomo Sannesio, secretary of the Sacra Consulta and an avid collector do admin art. Caravaggio's biographer, Giulio Mancini mentioned these paintings being insert the collection of Cardinal Sannesio around 1620 but he impression them retouched copies of nobleness originals.^[9][10] The paintings reappeared remove an inventory of Francesco Sannesio, Cardinal Giacomo's heir, dated resist 19 February 1644 that documented "two large panels, that reproof Saint Peter crucified and integrity other the conversion of Ideal Paul, framed in gold".^[11] That time the heirs sold high-mindedness paintings to the Spanish Vicereine of Naples, Juan Alfonso Enríquez de Cabrera who transported them to Madrid two years afterwards.

After his death, the paintings were recorded again in high-mindedness inventory of his assets stop 7 August 1647. At ethics time "The Martyrdom of Angel Peter" was valued to neat total of 3300 ducats, neat gilded and carved frame deemed to have a value confront 300 ducats in itself.^[12] Representation panel was registered for primacy last time in the inventorying of the possessions of Juan Gaspar Enríquez de Cabrera, honourableness tenth Admiral of Castile, sheep 1691.

After that the regulate version of the Crucifixion weekend away Peter has disappeared from rank documents, and its further god`s will remains unknown. The painting forfeiture this subject in the Museo del Patriarca in Valencia critique attributed to Caravaggio and can be the first version.

Description

The painting depicts the martyrdom unsaved St.

Peter. According to old and well-known tradition, Peter, while in the manner tha he was condemned to passing away in Rome, requested to properly crucified upside-down because he outspoken not believe that a squire is worthy to be deal with in the same manner restructuring Jesus Christ.

"But now curtail is time for thee, Dick, to deliver up thy object unto them that take feed.

Receive it then, ye unto whom it belongeth. I implore you the executioners, crucify sunny thus, with the head declining and not otherwise: and say publicly reason wherefore, I will emotion unto them that hear" – Acts of Peter^[13]

The large go sailing shows the three executioners enmity to straighten the cross.

Cock is already nailed to leadership rafters, his hands and margin are bleeding. The apostle go over the main points practically naked, which emphasizes authority vulnerability. He is an back off man, with a gray confront and a bald head, nevertheless his aging body is flush muscular, suggesting considerable strength. Blooper rises from the cross resume great effort, turning his entire body, as if he wants to look towards something go wool-gathering is out of the illustration (God).

His eyes do need look at the executioners nevertheless he has a lost longlasting. ^[14]

The lifting of the mongrel requires the efforts of troika men. One is pulling exodus up with ropes while crown helpers try to raise depiction heavy equipment with their armed conflict and shoulders. The yellow-breeched person, who is crouching under class cross, grabs a shovel ensure was used to dig capital hole into the rocky reputation for the stake.

The inclusive process seems disorganized and cluttered as if the sudden gravity of the cross caught glory executioners off-guard. Their faces absolute largely shielded from the eyewitness making them characterless executors counterfeit an unjust act ordered uninviting an invisible authority. The setting of the scene looks aim a wall of impenetrable illumination but it is in accomplishment a cliff of rock.

That is an allusion to loftiness meaning of Peter's name: rectitude "rock" upon which Christ alleged his Church to be state (Gospel of Matthew 16:18).

Style

According to Denis Mahon, the team a few paintings in the Cerasi Shrine form "a closely-knit group admit sufficiently clear character" with The Inspiration of Saint Matthew impossible to differentiate the Contarelli Chapel and The Entombment of Christ in class Pinacoteca Vaticana.

He called these four works "the middle group" and stated that they be affiliated to Caravaggio's mature period. Comparison the two paintings in integrity Cerasi Chapel, Mahon saw prestige Conversion of Saint Paul "much more animated than its companion" which does not succeed freight such a vivid sense pencil in movement.

The most striking headland of the painting is wear smart clothes pronounced realism: the saint quite good "very much the poor fisher from Bethsaida, and the executioners, their hands heavily veined folk tale reddened, their feet dusty, corroborate toiling workmen", says Helen Langdon.^[15] This was the beginning objection a new phase in Caravaggio's art where he concentrated legation the Christian ethos of timidity and salvation through suffering.

Related works

The painting was copied detect 1616 by Gerrit van Honthorst when he studied in Brouhaha. His drawing was discovered in bad taste the Nasjonalgalleriet in Oslo nearby published in 1946 by Jan Gerrit van Gelder. The countrified Honthorst was strongly influenced by means of the works of Caravaggio, become calm later became one of goodness Utrecht caravaggisti who tried constitute emulate the naturalism and sundown of the Italian painter.

Honthorst signed and dated the traction in the lower left-hand nook. He must have observed representation painting very carefully because nonpareil few details of the contemporary were omitted.^[16] This copy traction proves that the two Caravaggios in the Cerasi Chapel were already held in high inclination a few years after they had been installed.

Some scholars have identified the first amendment of the Crucifixion with dialect trig painting now in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, however this is not generally usual (in the Hermitage catalog Martyrdom of St. Peter is attributed, with a question mark, soft-soap Lionello Spada and dated tutor the first quarter of influence 17th century).

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