Saint Peter

Bernardo Strozzi · 1581–1644

What you practise here

Human figure: gesture, proportions and musculature

Start from the skull as a ball, place the brow line and the centre line, then check the thirds of the face before any detail. Compare angles, not features.

Public-domain artwork from a museum collection, reproduced for study. 100% real art — 0% AI.

Other artworks to study

Bernardo Strozzi, A Hand Holding Empty Gloves, 1630s, NGA 74819 Allegorical Figure Marie Emilie Coignet de Courson (1716–1806) with a Dog Study of Eleven Heads Portrait of a Young Man Study of Two Heads