The Crucifixion of Saint Peter (Michelangelo)

The Crucifixion of Saint Peter is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti, painted around 1546 to 1550 and housed in the Cappella Paolina of the Vatican Palace in Vatican City; it is the last fresco Michelangelo ever executed. Pope Paul III commissioned the work in 1541 for his newly built Cappella Paolina, and it depicts the moment Roman soldiers raise Saint Peter, upside down, to his cross, with the artist concentrating attention on the pain and suffering visible in the surrounding faces. A restoration completed in 2009 revealed what is believed to be a self-portrait of Michelangelo, shown standing in the fresco's upper left corner wearing a red tunic and the blue turban that Renaissance sculptors commonly wore to keep dust out of their hair. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/