Apostles drawings album St Peter, three-quarter length, holding the keys to heaven in his right hand and the Gospel

Text and files edited by Filippo Tuena published in Stefano Susinno, Drawings by Tommaso Minardi, exhibition catalog (Rome. National Gallery of Modern Art, 21 October 1982 - 9 January 1983), Rome 1982

St Peter, three-quarter length, holding the keys to heaven in his right hand and the Gospel. This is one of the few pages in the album to have a direct connection with other works by Minardi: it is, in fact, the definitive study in charcoal for the drapery. The severe and imposing figure of the saint appears to have drawn inspiration – in its drapery at least – from Carlo Maratta’s St Matthew (Palazzo Barbarini). Initialled and dated, bottom left: TM inv. 1807.