The Assassination of Saint Peter Martyr (Titian)

The Assassination of Saint Peter Martyr was a large altarpiece, about 500 by 306 centimeters, painted in oil by Titian between 1528 and 1529, originally on panel and later transferred to canvas, for the altar of the confraternity of Saint Peter Martyr in the Dominican church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice. It depicted the martyrdom of the Dominican preacher Peter of Verona, known as Saint Peter Martyr, in a landscape dominated by a great tree, and the art historian Vasari praised it in his Lives of the Artists as Titian's most complete and admired work; later scholars have credited it as an early anticipation of Baroque drama that influenced painters including Caravaggio and Annibale Carracci. The original painting was destroyed by fire in 1867 at Santi Giovanni e Paolo, reportedly after the church was struck by an Austrian artillery shell, and survives today only through copies and engravings, including a 1691 copy by Johann Carl Loth that still hangs in the church. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/