Relief with Saint Peter Martyr and Three Donors in the Cloisters, Sept. 2007

Relief with Saint Peter Martyr and Three Donors
Giovanni di Balduccio (Italian, active 1318-49)
Marble
Italy, Lombardy, Milan, about 1340

Accession # 2001.221

This relief, with the standing image of the Dominican saint Peter Martyr (d. 1252) and three kneeling donors, is one of three marble panels to survive from a tomb in the Milanese church of Sant' Eustorgio. The panel was originally to the right of a central panel depicting the Enthroned Virgin and Child between two angels (Castello Sforzesco, Milan). Another relief showing John the Baptist and four kneeling donors, in a composition that mirrors this panel (Sant' Eustorgio, Milan), would have originally appeared on the left side.

Text from the Cloisters label.