Burkhard Scheffler, second from right, a homeless man who died from the cold in 2022 on the edge of St. Peter’s Square, is portrayed as St. Peter in a painting by German artist Michael Triegel and ...
In 2018, German artist Michael Triegel asked a homeless man in Rome to pose for a drawing. Seven years on, the man’s likeness has gone on display in the Vatican, a reunion of sorts that came about by ...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — In 2018, German artist Michael Triegel asked a homeless man in Rome to pose for a drawing, thinking that he would make an ideal model for St. Peter if he ever needed to paint the ...