# St Peter Blessing and Donor [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MONTAGNA, Bartolomeo]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Oil on panel, 60 x 39 cm ## Commentary St Peter Blessing and Donor c. 1505 Oil on panel, 60 x 39 cm Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice This painting is executed with an astonishing synthesis of the human figure, architecture, and landscape. The artist's debt to Antonello da Messina is enriched by elements drawn from Giovanni Bellini, most evident in the delightful fragment of Veneto landscape, where among various borrowed buildings one finds the façade of the Duomo in Vicenza and the Arena in Pola. The inscription on the scroll carried by the little dog in his mouth reads: ESTO FIDELIS \("Be faithful"\). ## Related artworks - [Madonna Adoring the Child]() - [Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints \(detail\)]() - [Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints]() - [Madonna and Child under a Pergola with St John the Baptist and St Onofrius]() - [Madonna and Child with St Joseph]() - [Recovery of the Relic of St Anthony's Jawbone]() - [St Jerome]() - [The Young Christ]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()