GIOVANNI DI BALDUCCIO
(active 1315-1349)

St Peter Martyr

c. 1331
Marble
Museo Civico Medievale, Bologna

Giovanni di Balduccio must have made a marble polyptych in Bologna around 1331 for the church in Rocca near the Porta di Galliera. Five reliefs and statues have survived from this, the present statue is one of them. Other pieces are in Museo di Santo Stefano, Bologna; Pinacoteca Comunale, Faenza; Musée Grobet-Labadié, Marseille; and J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.




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