ALTARPIECE OF SAINT PETER

POLYCHROMED DECORATIONS 

Burnished gold shares protagonism with whites, deep blues and intense, almost opaque reds. Garments and headdresses are painted in blue and pale pink pastels with patterns in blue, black and red. Gold leaf is used for hair and backgrounds, tin foil for windows and silver for metal decorative elements. Intense green with fragments of gold on mordant is used for backgrounds while the interiors of compartments are painstakingly decorated with alternately-coloured tiles.

Decorative techniques

• Punchwork on gold.

• Pearl decorated chasubles with borders of variable qualities.

• Painted inscriptions and blue and red Sgrafitto on gold.

• Continuous applied brocade, local applied brocade (the pattern is very similar to those used by Maestro I*T) and fragments used along hems.

• Rectangular gilt applications.

• Added vegetal elements: the rope and net of Christ.

• Metal elements: medallions and stars.

• Small glass fragments added to black background (Information supplied by Restauraciones Siglo XXI, 2002)