Saint Peter

This Saint Peter by Bernardo Daddi, painted around 1330, is a single-saint panel that likely formed part of a larger polyptych altarpiece. Daddi was the most prolific producer of devotional panels in mid-Trecento Florence, his workshop supplying images to churches, confraternities, and private collectors across Tuscany. Now in the Courtauld Gallery, London, the panel shows Daddi at his most characteristic — translating Giotto's monumental vision into an accessible, warmly devotional idiom suited to intimate worship.

Egg tempera and gold leaf on panel with carefully tooled halo decoration. The saint is modeled with Daddi's gentle chiaroscuro and soft contours, standing in a slight contrapposto that gives the figure understated naturalism within the flat gold-ground format.