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Saint Peter Martyr Healing the Leg of a Young Man

ca. 1450
Not on view
This painting belongs to a series of eight scenes that would have been arranged around an image or statue of Saint Peter Martyr (1205–1252). Here the saint ministers to a youth who had kicked his mother and cut off his leg in remorse. A genial storyteller, Antonio sets the scene in a carpenter’s shop. Together with his younger brother Bartolomeo, his partner Giovanni d’Allemagna (who died in 1450), and his son Alvise, Antonio established a family enterprise in Venice surpassed in prestige only by that of Jacopo Bellini and his sons.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Saint Peter Martyr Healing the Leg of a Young Man
  • Artist: Antonio Vivarini (Italian, Venice, active by 1440–died 1476/84)
  • Date: ca. 1450
  • Medium: Tempera and gold on wood
  • Dimensions: 20 7/8 x 13 1/8 in. (53 x 33.3 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1937
  • Object Number: 37.163.4
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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