GIOVANNI DI BALDUCCIO
(active 1315-1349)

Shrine of St Peter Martyr (detail of front)

1335-39
Marble
Cappella Portinari, Sant'Eustorgio, Milan

Reliefs on the front of the sarcophagus depicts the saint's funeral, his canonization, and his miraculous intervention in a storm at sea. Carved in an archaic but very legible style, figures neatly arranged row by row and the protagonists enlarged according to the conventions of hieratic perspective, they make it clear that the saint's remains are both highly efficacious and sanctioned by Church authority.

Below the reliefs are the statues of the Virtues.




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