Saint Andrew

Andrea Bregno

1491 · Marble · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Preserved with the relief are the separately carved pilasters that accompanied it on an altar that stood in the old basilica of Saint Peter's, Rome. The altar, with figures of the apostles Paul (left), Peter (center), and Andrew (right), was erected in 1491 at the expense of a French prelate Guillaume du Perrier and was dismantled in 1606 when the basilica was enlarged.

Artist

Andrea Bregno

Date

1491

Medium

Marble

Culture

Italian, Rome

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917