PETER THE PAINTER (Petrus Pictor). - Poet and theologian, of whom biographical details are lacking. He lived between the end of the 11th century and the beginning of the 12th century and was a canon of St-Omer.

He wrote several Latin short poems not without merit: Contra simoniam (ed. H. Boehmer, in MGH, Libelli de lite, III, pp. 708-10): a violent attack against the Roman clergy; De vita Pilati; De illa quae impudenter filium suum adamavit: a re-evocation of the drama of Phaedra and Hippolytus; De laude Flandriae (Flandria dulce solum), with an allusion to contemporary events. Much more important is the composition De sacra Eucharistia or De Sacramento altaris (a different recension: Busée in PL 207, 1135-54 [among the works of Peter of Blois] is preferable: Beaugendre, ibid., 171, 1195-1212 [among the works of Hildebert of Lavardin]): an exposition of eucharistic doctrine, inspired by the work of Paschasius Radbertus (v.).

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BIBL.: Manitius, III, pp. 877-83; E. Ammon, Pierre le Peintre, in DThC, XII, II, coll. 2036-38; J. De Ghellinck, L'essor de la litt. lat. au XIIe siècle, II, Bruxelles-Parigi 1946, p. 231.

Antonio Piolanti

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Peter the Painter (Petrus Pictor)

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