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June 9, 2012
“The Denial of St. Peter”
For years when I visited the painting I looked mostly at Peter, at his expression of simultaneous deception and defeat. But the longer I looked, the more it seemed to me that the saint — as the symbolic embodiment of the human frailty and faith that underpin Roman Catholic doctrine — was not the lead actor in the drama. It was the maid, whose eyes, catching the light with pinpoint reflections, somehow become the painting’s center.
Posted by gerardvanderleun at June 9, 2012 3:29 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.