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Liberation of St Peter from Prison (Jacopo di Cione)

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22: 145:. Both the angel and Peter have saintly haloes; the angel has golden hair. The soldiers wear semi-conical caps. Under the angel's escort, Peter's chains fell off and the city gates opened. The scene shows the angel awakening St Peter inside the cell, and on the right, leading him by the hand past sleeping guards. Peter was initially incredulous, thinking that it was a dream. He exits the dark cell into a gilded world of freedom. 75:
The polyptych was designed by Niccolaio and made in collaboration with Matteo di Pacino. This panel forms part of the narrative story of St Peter that included at least five other predella scenes: Six predella panels of the altarpiece still exist, dispersed in different collections, namely:
239: 21: 229: 84: 234: 224: 69: 33: 219: 214: 119: 183: 130: 126: 94: 195: 162: 61: 29: 208: 141:, but the night before his trial an angel awoke while he lay between two guards and 134: 138: 57: 65: 53: 49: 108:
formerly part of Thyssen-Bornemisza and Sacerdoti Collections
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for the no-longer extant church of San Pier Maggiore in
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The superior portions of the altarpiece are now in the
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Collection of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum
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Jacopo di Cione
Philadelphia Museum of Art
tempera
predella
polyptych
Jacopo di Cione
Florence
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art
Vatican Pinacoteca
National Gallery, London
Liberation of Peter
Acts 12:3–19
Peter
King Herod
"Saint Peter Released from Prison"
RISD, Art Museum
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Categories
1370s paintings
Gothic paintings
Italian paintings
Paintings in the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Paintings of Saint Peter
Collection of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum

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