The Calling of the Apostles Peter and Andrew
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Duccio spliced two Gospels so the net is full at the moment it is abandoned. Matthew's Christ calls two brothers casting a net; the catch and Peter's gesture of remonstrance, Washington's catalogue notes, come only from Luke. They are succeeding at the trade they are told to leave.
Christ stands on solid rock; the apostles still ride the unstable water, inside the labor they are called from. The panel sat on the Maestà's rear predella, turned towards the apse.
Peter's hand goes to his chest. Luke gives the gesture words: depart from me, for I am a sinful man.
Sources: NGA Systematic Catalogue (Boskovits), Italian Paintings of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries · NGA Systematic Catalogue (Boskovits) and Kress Foundation description · Commission by Opera del Duomo of Siena Cathedral; contract dated 9 October 1308; altarpiece carried in procession and installed 9 June 1311 (corrected from Kress Foundation's erroneous 30 June date) · National Gallery of Art, Washington, 'Italian Paintings of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries', entry on Duccio, 'The Calling of the Apostles Peter and Andrew'. · Luke 5:8, Douay-Rheims (Challoner). · Matthew 4:18-20, Douay-Rheims (Challoner). · Dillian Gordon, 'The Italian Paintings before 1400', National Gallery Catalogues (London, 2011), on the Maestà predella panels.
And he saith to them: Come ye after me, and I will make you to be fishers of men.
Matthew 4:19 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 4,000 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.