Caravaggio had been painting large altarpieces for only ... religion to speak of – despite its subject being the crucifixion of St Peter, the man who insisted upon being crucified head down ...

In today's Gospel reading, Jesus speaks prophetically to Peter, indicating that his life will take a very different course ...

Caravaggio completed the first of the paintings, “The Conversion of Saint Paul,” at the same time as the equally monumental “Crucifixion of Saint Peter.” Both works were commissioned by ...

A different tradition records that Peter was killed by crucifixion ... In this early 17th-century painting, Giovanni Battista Ricci da Novara re-created the St. Peter’s Basilica erected by ...

The Vatican has announced an art competition in which your paintings can be displayed inside of St. Peter’s Basilica along with the works of Renaissance masters Michelangelo and Gian Lorenzo ...

This is Italian artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s depiction of the crucifixion of Saint Peter, who insisted on being crucified upside down he felt unworthy to die in the same manner as ...