2-713-360 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'St. Peter Enthroned with St. John the Baptist and St. Paul', 1515-1516, (1930). Saint Peter, the Catholic Church's first pope, wearing the papal tiara, and fisherman's ring, indicator of his humble origins. The Baptist holds a crucifix with a banner reading 'Ego Sum Vox Clamantis in Deserto' (I am the Voice crying in the Wilderness). St Paul holds a sword and a book containing his epistles in the New Testament. Painting in the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy. From "The Connoisseur", Volume 86, edited by C. Reginald Grundy. [The Connoisseur Ltd, London, 1930]