The Keys and the Sword
Peter with the keys of the kingdom and Paul with the sword of his beheading, the two princes of the apostles.
Peter holds keys because of the promise of the keys of the kingdom; Paul holds a sword because he was beheaded, and because of the sword of the spirit. The two are usually painted as a contrasting pair — Peter older, broad-faced and white-bearded, Paul balding with a long dark beard — so that a viewer could tell them apart at the far end of a nave, before any object was visible at all.
View from the Villa Doria Pamphili to Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome
August Ahlborn
The Conversion of Saint Paul
Bartolome Esteban Murillo
Crucifixion of Saint Peter
Caravaggio
Conversion of Saint Paul
Caravaggio
Denial of Saint Peter
Caravaggio
The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew
Caravaggio
St. Peter Enthroned with Saints
Cima da Conegliano
Saint Paul
Cornelis de Vos
Four Saints (from left St. Peter, St. Martha, St. Mary Magdalene, St. Leonard)
Correggio
Saint Paul
Diego Velazquez
Penitent Saint Peter
Dirck van Baburen
Saint Peter
Dirck van Baburen
The Denial of Saint Peter
Dirck van Baburen
The Repentant Saint Peter
Francisco Goya
Saint Paul
Guercino
The Penitent Saint Peter
Guido Reni
Saint Paul
Guido Reni
Saint Peter
Guido Reni
Saint Peter
Jacob Jordaens
The conversion of Saint Paul
Juan Bautista Maíno
Saint Paul
Jusepe de Ribera
Saint Peter and Saint Paul
Jusepe de Ribera
Saint Peter
Jusepe de Ribera
Assumption of the Virgin with Saints Peter Chrysologus, and Cassian
Lavinia Fontana
Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome, Peter, Clare and Francis
Lorenzo Lotto
Madonna and Child with Saint Peter Martyr
Lorenzo Lotto
Saint Peter praying
Matthias Stom
A Distant View of Saint Peter"s, Rome
Penry Williams
Saint Peter
Peter Paul Rubens
Saint Paul
Philippe de Champaigne
Saint Peter
Titian
Landscape with the Conversion of Saint Paul
Tobias Verhaecht