Galatea
Galatea
Chapel of San Zeno Mosaics
Chapel of San Zeno Mosaics
Liberation of Saint Peter 1

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.

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