# Denial of St Peter [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TOURNIER, Nicolas]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 171 x 252 cm ## Commentary Tournier was the pupil of Valentin de Boulogne, a French Caravaggesque painter. He counteracted the Baroque use of light with a very personal and static way of handling figures with serene evenness of movement, a certain harmonius moderation in the relations between gesture, expression and sentiment, whose equilibrium, which might almost be called classical, is similar to the Gothic statuary. <p> <table align=left cellpadding=5 border=1 width=320 bgcolor="\#99cccc"> <tr valign=middle><td><img src="/support/gif/listen.gif" border=0 valign=middle> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 21 minutes\):<br><a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/16\_cent/palestrina\_missa\_brevis\_petrus.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><b>Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Missa Brevis \(Tu es Petrus\)</b></a> </td></tr></table> ## Related artworks - [Crucifixion]() - [Drinking Party with a Lute Player]() - [Entombment]() - [Lute Player]() - [Merry Company]() - [Soldier]() - [St Paul]() - [The Guard Room]() - [The Guardian Angel]() - [Victory of Constantine]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()