Liberation of Saint Peter
Raphael
1512–1514
Fresco
Adult €25
15min
Raphael Rooms (Stanza di Eliodoro), Vatican Museums
Viale Vaticano, Vatican City 00120
Raphael's most innovative light painting — three simultaneous light sources in one fresco: cold silver moonlight, supernatural angel-gold, warm torch-orange. One of the most sophisticated treatments of artificial light before Rembrandt, who studied it intensely. Peter's miraculous release is shown in three simultaneous moments within a single composition.


