Marriage of the Virgin (Perugino)
The Marriage of the Virgin is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Perugino, although it is now sometimes attributed to his pupil Lo Spagna.Which (if present scholarship is correct) is about ten years earlier than Perugino's and Raphael's treatments of the same subject.However, the figures in the foreground are very similar to both later paintings, including the unmistakable young man breaking the rod.Attempts by the commune of Perugia, and the personal commitment of Antonio Canova, to retrieve the work failed.The wide perspective of the picture, with at its centre an octagonal edifice and the aligned composition of the figures on the sides, is strongly related to the Perugino's Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter at the Sistine Chapel.