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Assassination of Saint Peter Martyr

Maker

Workshop of
(Artists)
1430-1516

Title

Date of Production

c. 1509

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

Height: 68.1 cm (panel)
Width: 100 cm (panel)

Accession Number

P.1947.LF.29

Mode of Acquisition

Arthur Hamilton Lee, bequest, 1947

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

On display

Keywords

Label Text

This painting depicts the violent murders of the Dominican friars Peter (on the left) and Dominic on the road to Milan in 1252. The forest behind symbolically echoes the friars’ brutal end — the cut-down trees bleed like they do. The two friars and their assassins are copied from a painting, now in the National Gallery, London, by the leading Venetian painter Giovanni Bellini. The similarity means that the work here was likely painted by one of his studio assistants for a client who admired the original.

Provenance

1910: Miethke Gallery, Vienna; 1911: purchased by Fairfax Murray; 1923: purchased by Viscount Lee from Agnew's; Lee Bequest 1947

Exhibition History

National Gallery (permanent display during closure), National Gallery, London, 14/09/2018-03/09/2021

National Gallery (to be displayed with permanent collection), National Gallery, London, 01/09/1997-01/06/1998

Literature

Peña Núñez, Beatriz Carolina, Los Incas alzados de Vilcabamba en la primera Historia (1590) de Martín de Murúa, Pamplona/EUNSA 2018

Nickel, Tobias Benjamin, Die Landschaftszeichnungen von Domenico Campagnola (1500-1564), PhD Thesis, University of Vienna 2017
vol. 1, p. 108n514

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