Image: 9 22 rome peter basilica b 0194

Right: St. Vitus - Martyr
Born - c.290 in Sicily
Died - c.303 in Lucania

Statue created - c.1702-1703
On 13 January 1702 he undertook to execute the statue, and delivered it on 14 March 1703.

Sculptor - Girolamo Gramignoli
He received 60 scudi for the statue and 20 for the dog.

Height - 3.1 m. (10ft 4in) travertine
Depicted as a child, he bends to pat a dog, his traditional attribute.

Artistic work in stucco of the highest quality was rare at the end of the seventeenth century This work is characterized by a semingly open and waving movement.

Left:
St. Modestus - Martyr
Died - c. 303 in Lucania

Statue created - c.1702-1703
In April 1702 Ferretti began work on the statue which he delivered the following year.

Sculptor - Giuseppe Ferretti
During 1703 he received two payments, for 20 and 10 scudi, then a final payment for 50 scudi. This is the only know work of Ferretti. The treatment of drapery and hair recalls the two statues, Sts Nereus (88) and Achilleus (89)

Height - 3.1 m. (10ft 4in) travertine
He is depicted as a mature man with a beard, in Roman dress with a short tunic and cloak over his right shoulder. His left hand hold the palm of martyrdom.


- St. Peter's Basilica: The Papal Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican: Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano, Rome, Italy. Completed on 18 November 1626 - Photograph by Michael Ghaly for St-Takla.org, September 22, 2014.

- صور كاتدرائية القديس بطرس الرسول، الفاتيكان، روما، إيطاليا. انتهى العمل بها في 18 نوفمبر 1626 م. - تصوير مايكل غالي لموقع الأنبا تكلاهيمانوت، 22 سبتمبر 2014 م.