# Bronze door: Martyrdom of St Peter [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [FILARETE]() - Date: 1401-1450 - Technique: Bronze ## Commentary The depiction of the crucifixion of St Peter on a mountain between two pyramids, the Castel Sant'Angelo and a tree, shows a mixture of various medieval and contemporary interpretations of the tradition of the crucifixion 'inter duas metas'. There was a very popular belief that lasted throughout the Middle Ages, according to which St Peter had been crucified inter duas metas, i.e. between two monuments, both of which identified as a meta. Representations of the Crucifixion of St Peter from the 13th-15th centuries illustrate this tradition, as seen from the paintings of <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/c/cimabue/assisi/st\_peter.html'\)" href="/html/c/cimabue/assisi/st\_peter.html">Cimabue</a> in the Upper Church, San Francesco, Assisi, <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/g/giotto/z\_panel/4stefane/12stefan.html'\)" href="/html/g/giotto/z\_panel/4stefane/12stefan.html">Giotto</a> in the Stefaneschi Triptych, <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/d/deodato/grado4.html'\)" href="/html/d/deodato/grado4.html">Deodato di Orlandi</a> in San Piero a Grado, Pisa, or <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/masaccio/pisa/pisa\_pr3.html'\)" href="/html/m/masaccio/pisa/pisa\_pr3.html">Masaccio</a> in the Pisa Altarpiece. ## Related artworks - [Bronze door: Back]() - [Bronze door: Beheading of St Paul]() - [Bronze door: Christ Enthroned]() - [Bronze door: Coronation of Emperor Sigismund]() - [Bronze door: Martyrdom of St Peter]() - [Bronze door: Martyrdom of St Peter]() - [Bronze door: Mary Enthroned]() - [Bronze door: Mythological scene]() - [Bronze door]() - [Bronze door]() - [Bronze door: St Paul and St Peter]() - [Bronze door: St Paul]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()