BREGNO, Andrea
(b. 1418, Osteno, d. 1503, Roma)

St Andrew

1491
Marble, 120 x 81 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

This high-relief sculpture of St Andrew standing in a shell-topped niche was originally on an altar in Old Saint Peter's in Rome. It was one of three saints in niches above the altar. separated by finely decorated pilasters. The reliefs of the other two saints, St Paul and St Peter are now in the church of San Pietro Ispano in Boville Ernica, near Rome.