1547
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Saint Peter is a 1547 by Domenico Beccafumi, a Renaissance work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a portrait of Saint Peter in this painting. He's depicted in a simple setting, which makes him the main focus. This painting is by an artist who worked with a technique called chiaroscuro, which is a way of using strong contrasts of light and dark to create a sense of volume. The Cleveland Museum of Art is where you can learn more about this and similar works.
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…
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Domenico di Pace Beccafumi (1486 – May 18, 1551) was an Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter active predominantly in Siena. He is considered one of the last undiluted representatives of the Sienese school of painting.
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