# Christ Handing the Keys to St Peter \(detail\)

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## Artwork

- Artist: [PERUGINO, Pietro](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/perugino-pietro-r7715b5f56f6287>)
- Date: 1451-1500
- Technique: Fresco

## Commentary

The actors are graceful and elegant figures who tend to stand firmly on the earth. Their heads are smallish in proportion to the rest of their bodies, and their features are delicately distilled with considerable attention to minor detail.

## Related artworks

- [Apollo and Marsyas](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/perugino-pietro-r7715b5f56f6287/apollo-and-marsyas-r6545d0b590d473>)
- [Archangel Michael](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/perugino-pietro-r7715b5f56f6287/archangel-michael-rd81f9af1142c06>)
- [Assumption of Mary](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/perugino-pietro-r7715b5f56f6287/assumption-of-mary-r150d1382761db9>)
- [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/perugino-pietro-r7715b5f56f6287/assumption-of-the-virgin-detail-ra80ccdda28eee1>)
- [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/perugino-pietro-r7715b5f56f6287/assumption-of-the-virgin-detail-racb630845c3bb8>)
- [Assumption of the Virgin](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/perugino-pietro-r7715b5f56f6287/assumption-of-the-virgin-rc76bc7ffaf391c>)
- [Assumption of the Virgin with Four Saints \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/perugino-pietro-r7715b5f56f6287/assumption-of-the-virgin-with-four-saints-detail-r6eab98415d0bce>)
- [Assumption of the Virgin with Four Saints \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/perugino-pietro-r7715b5f56f6287/assumption-of-the-virgin-with-four-saints-detail-r71feec748a83c3>)
- [Assumption of the Virgin with Four Saints](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/perugino-pietro-r7715b5f56f6287/assumption-of-the-virgin-with-four-saints-r12269506eddc95>)
- [Baptism of Christ \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/perugino-pietro-r7715b5f56f6287/baptism-of-christ-detail-r89f2e5c76fc54b>)
- [Baptism of Christ \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/perugino-pietro-r7715b5f56f6287/baptism-of-christ-detail-rd7618247aa7ab0>)
- [Baptism of Christ \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/perugino-pietro-r7715b5f56f6287/baptism-of-christ-detail-rfbeebaf2cbadbe>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)