Grifo di Tancredi, (painter), Italian, active 1271 - 1303 (or possibly 1328), Saint Peter, c. 1310, tempera on panel, painted surface (top of gilding): 61.5 ⊙ 34.5 cm (24 3/16 ⊙ 13 9/16 in.), painted surface (including painted border): 64.2 ⊙ 34.5 cm (25 1/4 ⊙ 13 9/16 in.), overall: 66.2 ⊙ 36.6 ⊙ 1 cm (26 1/16 ⊙ 14 7/16 ⊙ 3/8 in.), This image, along with, Christ Blessing, and, Saint James Major, originally occupied a single panel. They and two othersone now in a museum in France, the other lostwere cut from the same altarpiece. It would have been an imposing work with triangular gables (see, Reconstruction, ). The considerable dimensions and elaborate ornamental decoration incised on the gold ground suggest that this altarpiece must have been a commission of some importance. However, the iconographic conventions and technical features (execution on a single panel) are of an archaizing type, which indicates that whoever ordered this painting wanted an artist like, Grifo di Tancredi (Italian, active 1271 - 1303 (or possibly 1328)), who worked in a traditional style..