Pietro Perugino
[5] According to Vasari, he was apprenticed to the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio alongside Leonardo da Vinci, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Lorenzo di Credi, Filippino Lippi, and others.Some of his early works were extensive frescoes for the convent of the Ingessati fathers, destroyed during the Siege of Florence; he produced many cartoons for them also, which they executed with brilliant effect in stained glass.A good specimen of his early style in tempera is the tondo (circular picture) in the Musée du Louvre of the Virgin and Child Enthroned between Saints.This extensive scheme, which may have been finished by 1500, comprised the painting of the vault, showing the seven planets and the signs of the zodiac (Perugino being responsible for the designs and his pupils most probably for the execution), and the representation on the walls of two sacred subjects: the Nativity and Transfiguration; in addition, the Eternal Father, the cardinal virtues of Justice, Prudence, Temperance, Fortitude, Cato as the emblem of wisdom, and numerous life-sized figures of classic worthies, prophets, and sibyls figured in the program.An Annunciation has disappeared; three panels, the Virgin adoring the infant Christ, St. Michael, and St. Raphael with Tobias are among the treasures of the National Gallery, London.The portrait in question shows a plump face, with small dark eyes, a short but well-cut nose, and sensuous lips; the neck is thick, the hair bushy and frizzled, and the general air imposing.A vastly finer work of Perugino's was the polyptych of the Ascension of Christ painted ca 1496–98 for the church of S. Pietro of Perugia, (Municipal Museum, Lyon); the other portions of the same altarpiece are dispersed in other galleries.In the chapel of the Disciplinati of Città della Pieve is an Adoration of the Magi, a square of 6.5 m containing about thirty life-sized figures; this was executed, with scarcely credible celerity, from March 1 to 25 (or thereabouts) in 1505, and must no doubt be in great part the work of Vannucci's pupils.In the church of S. Onofrio in Florence is a much lauded and much debated fresco of the Last Supper, a careful and blandly correct but uninspired work; it has been ascribed to Perugino by some connoisseurs, by others to Raphael; it may more probably be by some different pupil of the Umbrian master.
TrebbianoCittà della PievePapal StatesUmbriaFontignanoItalianAndrea del VerrocchioPaintingfrescoThe Delivery of the KeysItalian RenaissanceItalian Renaissance painterHigh RenaissanceRaphaelPerugiaVasariGiovanni SantiBartolomeo CaporaliFiorenzo di LorenzoLeonardo da VinciDomenico GhirlandaioLorenzo di CrediFilippino LippiPiero della Francescaperspectiveoil paintingfrescoesSiege of Florencestained glasstemperaMusée du LouvreSistine ChapelAdoration of the MagiSixtus IVZipporahLuca SignorelliBaptism of ChristDelivery of the KeysPinturicchioAssumptionNativityBulrushesMichelangeloLast JudgementPietàUffiziLuca FancelliSala delle Udienze del Collegio del CambiozodiacTransfigurationcardinal virtuessibylspriorsCertosa of PaviaNational Gallery, LondonAnnunziata AltarpieceBasilica dell'AnnunziataStanza dell'Incendio del BorgoPope Julius IIIncendio del BorgoVatican CityVictoria and Albert Museumthe plagueUffizi GalleryPalazzo PittiMaria Maddalena de' PazziPazzi CrucifixionLo SpagnapolyptychS. Pietro of PerugiaSaint JeromeSaint FrancisPompeo CocchiEusebio da San GiorgioMariano di EusterioGiovanni di PietroMadonna with Child Enthroned between Saints John the Baptist and SebastianGalitzinSan GimignanoNational Gallery, WashingtonCathedral of Saint Romulus of FiesoleFiesoleAnnunciation of FanoPortrait of Lorenzo di Creditransferred to canvasNational Gallery of ArtWashingtonSt. SebastianNationalmuseumStockholmLouvreGalleria BorgheseThe Virgin appearing to St. BernardAlte PinakothekMunichAlbani Torlonia AltarpieceTorlonia CollectionSt Sebastian (Perugino, Hermitage)The HermitageSt. PetersburgPortrait of Francesco delle OpereCertosa di Pavia AltarpieceDecemviri AltarpieceFano AltarpieceSan Francesco al Prato ResurrectionPinacoteca VaticanaVallombrosa AltarpieceGalleria dell'AccademiaFlorenceTezi AltarpieceGalleria Nazionale dell'UmbriaMadonna in Glory with SaintsPinacoteca Nazionale di BolognaMarriage of the VirginMusée des Beaux-ArtsSão Paulo Museum of ArtSão PauloBrazilCombat of Love and ChastityIsabella d'Este studioloAnnunziata PolyptychGallerie dell'AccademiaAnnunziataVictoria & Albert MuseumLondonAscension of Christ