person
Peter the Hermit
also: Петр Амьенский
French preacher (c. 1050-1115) who helped launch the First Crusade's popular People's Crusade; invoked as the costume the painter Butronza dresses up in for studio theatrics.
Reading notes
- Artists' Wives §38 Peter the Hermit
The 11th-century French preacher who helped launch the People's Crusade; Butronza is dressed in a costume evoking him, part of the sketch's mockery of painters posing in historical dress.