Giuocolo Giuochi. Vasari erroneously calls him Francesco Peselli, and makes Pesellino his son instead of his grandson. He is also wrong in making him a pupil of Andrea del Castagno, who was not born until 1390. None of his works extant. He was also an architect and a sculptor.—C. & C., Italy, ii. 354; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., ii. 136, 155; iv. 74, 180; ed. Mil., iii. 35, 41; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., i. 310.
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PESNE, ANTOINE, born in Paris, May
23, 1683, died in Berlin, Aug. 5, 1757.
French school; history and portrait painter,
nephew of the famous engraver Jean Pesne
(1623-1700), pupil of his father, Thomas
Pesne, a portrait painter, and of Charles de
la Fosse, his uncle; studied then at Rome,
Naples, and Venice, and while in Italy was
called in 1710 to Berlin, where he became
court-painter in 1711, and director of the
Academy. Member of Paris Academy in
1720. Works: Portrait of Frederik William
II., do. of the Painter Nicolaas Wleughels,
Versailles Museum; do. of Frederick
the Great (1739), do. of Engraver G. F.
Schmidt and Wife (1748), Family of Captain
von Erlach, Berlin Museum; Girl with
two Pigeons (1728), Fortune Teller, Cook
plucking Turkey (1712), Artist's Portrait
(1728), three other portraits, Dresden Museum;
Girl with Basket, Old Pinakothek,
Munich; Lady's Portrait, Schwerin Gallery;
Story of the Widow of Corinth, Wörlitz
Gallery.—Bellier, ii. 246; Jal, 960; Nagler,
xi. 159.
PETER, ST., Carlo Dolci, Palazzo Pitti,
Florence; canvas, H. 5 ft. 8 in. × 3 ft. 11 in.
St. Peter, sitting in a grotto, with clasped
hands, weeping over his fault; in background,
the cock. Painted in 1654 for
Carlo Corbinelli. Engraved by V. Benucci.—Gal.
du Pal. Pitti, i. Pl. 34.
By Guido Reni, Hermitage, St. Petersburg. The Apostle, in a blue tunic and yellow mantle, is represented with clasped hands, expressive of repentance.
PETER, ST., CHRIST'S CHARGE TO,
Pietro Perugino, Sistine Chapel, Vatican;
fresco. Christ, attended by the Apostles
and others in a palatial court, gives the keys
to Peter, who is kneeling; background, an
octagonal temple with two porches, and a
triumphal arch on each side, with landscape
in background, figures in middle distance.
One of his finest mural works. Finished in
1486.—C. & C., Italy, iii. 179; Woermann,
ii. 238.
By Rubens, Hertford House, London; wood, H. 4 ft. 7 in. × 3 ft. Figures half-length, life-size. Christ, in the presence of three of his disciples, delivers the keys to Peter, to whom he appears to say: "Feed my sheep;" near the Saviour the heads of two sheep. Painted for chapel of tomb of Viscomte d'Amant, Chancellor of Brabant; sold to Lafontaine in Paris, whence taken to England and passed finally to Mr. Champion for £5,000; sold by Mr. Pinny (1824) to Prince of Orange for 2,500 guineas; sale of William II. (1850) to Lord Hertford, 18,375 francs. Engraved by Kraaft; Van Eisen; Winstanley. Same subject, different composition, painted for chapel of tomb of Jan Brueghel, in Chartreux, Brussels.—Smith, ii. 51; Waagen, ii. 157.
Subject treated also by Jacopo da Empoli, Trinità, Florence; Guido Reni, Cathedral of Fano; Heinrich von Hess, Church of All Saints, Munich; Jean François Brémond, Church of La Villette, Paris; Girolamo Mutiano, chapel in St. Peter's, Rome.
PETER, ST., DELIVERANCE OF,
Raphael, Stanza d'Eliodoro, Vatican; fresco,
dated 1514. In three compartments: middle,
the angel awakening St. Peter, who lies
between two slumbering guards; at right,
he is leaving the prison with the angel, passing
soldiers asleep on the steps; at left, the
keepers awaking in dismay at the escape of
their charge. In allusion to the escape of
