St Peter Martyr with St Nicholas and St Benedict

St Peter Martyr with St Nicholas and St Benedict is a c.1505-1506 oil on canvas painting by Cima da Conegliano, now in the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan. It refers back to sacra conversazione pieces by Giovanni Bellini, whilst the landscape shows the artist as an early adopter of the new style of Giorgione.[1]

Detail of the landscape

The work was commissioned by the spice merchant Benedetto Carlone for the chapel dedicated to St Peter Martyr in Corpus Domini, a church in Venice, where he planned to be buried. It shows the saint dressed in Dominican habit. The church was suppressed under the Napoleonic occupation of Italy and the painting arrived in Brera 1811.[2]

References
  1. "Room VIII - Pinacoteca di Brera".
  2. (in Italian) AA.VV., Brera, guida alla pinacoteca, Electa, Milano 2004. ISBN 978-88-370-2835-0
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