This painted tabernacle wing from Fåberg, Oppland, portrays St. Peter with the keys of Heaven. His bright appearance on the red background is strengthened by a halo around his head, and delicate bands of curvy plant ornamentation on blue background. The exceptional painting of St. Peter is on the exterior of the door of a closed shrine. Through him, people could learn to know the Heavenly pleasures. The inside of the door holds traces of relief figures expressing motifs from Mary’s life, which may indicate that a sculpture of Mary may have appeared as the central figure in the tabernacle. The painted door panel dates to the mid-thirteenth century and is extra-ordinary both in style and in quality. The door panel has recently been on loan for the exhibition North & South: European masterpieces reunited at the Museum Catharijneconvent in Utrecht, the Netherlands (October 2019 - January 2020), and then at the Episcopal Museum of Vic in Barcelona, Spain (February 2020-September 2020). C3006.

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