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The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio.It takes its theme from a passage in the Gospel of Matthew describing the moment when Christ called the two brothers Simon – later known as Peter – and Andrew, to be his disciples:
The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew; The Calling of Saint Matthew; Christ and the Penitent Sinners; Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (Polenov) Christ Giving the Keys to Saint Peter (Pittoni) Christ Giving the Keys to Saint Peter (Rubens) Christ in Glory with Saints and Odoardo Farnese; Christ on the Mount of Olives (Caravaggio)
The Crucifixion of Saint Peter (Italian: Crocifissione di san Pietro) is a work by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, painted in 1601 for the Cerasi Chapel of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome. Across the chapel is a second Caravaggio work depicting the Conversion of Saint Paul on the Road to Damascus (1601).
The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew (1607) is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio.It is in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, which acquired it from the Arnaiz collection in Madrid in 1976, having been taken to Spain by the Spanish Viceroy of Naples in 1610.
Detail of the characters on the right, with John Argyropoulos in the center. In the background left, the fishermen Peter and Andrew are called by Jesus. The two can also be seen in the background right, behind Jesus, who calls James and John, who are restoring the nets on their father Zebedee's boat.
Saint Peter refused to be crucified the same way as Jesus. He was crucified upside down. Saint Andrew is typically crucified in the form of an X rather than the cross. He was crucified in Patras where his remains can be found today at the Cathedral of Saint Andrew, Patras. The Damaskinos painting of the Crucifixion of Saint Andrew can be found ...
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