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The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew
The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio. It takes its theme from a passage in the Gospel of Matthew describing the moment when Christ called the two brothers Simon – later known as Peter – and Andrew, to be his disciples:
As Jesus walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea – for they were fishermen.
, then by the Capitani di Parte, and then under the Grand-Duchy of Tuscany government. It was rebuilt first in the 14th-century, with other refurbishments subsequently. It became a priory in 1518. The interior still houses a "Madonna and Child" by Lorenzo di Bicci.
The frescoes in the apse depicting "Glory of St Peter" on the ceiling and "Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew" and "Liberation of St Peter" in lunettes, all by an unknown 18th-century painter,