# Salvation of Peter \(Navicella\) \(east vault cell\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ANDREA DA FIRENZE]() - Date: 1351-1400 - Technique: Fresco ## Commentary On the east vault cell, above the Church as the Path to Salvation, the Salvation to Peter, a free copy of the famous <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/g/giotto/zz\_misc/y\_mosaic/11navice.html'\)" href="/html/g/giotto/zz\_misc/y\_mosaic/11navice.html">mosaic by Giotto</a> from the Old St. Peter's, known as the Navicella, is depicted. The apostles' ship, threatened by a storm, and Christ's rescue of Peter from drowning, stories that since early Christian times were understood as symbolic of the church, are to be viewed here with the subject of the fresco on the east wall. ## Related artworks - [Ascension of Christ \(south vault cell\)]() - [Bearing of the Cross, Crucifixion, Descent into Hell \(north wall\)]() - [Bearing of the Cross \(detail\)]() - [Bearing of the Cross]() - [Crucifixion \(detail\)]() - [Crucifixion \(detail\)]() - [Crucifixion \(detail\)]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Descent into Hell \(detail\)]() - [Descent into Hell]() - [Madonna and Child with Saints \(detail\)]() - [Madonna and Child with Saints]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()