Pietro Perugino

(Italian, born circa 1450–1523)

Pietro Perugino was an important painter of the Italian Renaissance known for his fiery temperament and lack of religious belief. The artist’s skill at conveying perspectival space and clarity of form is evinced in his work The Delivery of the Keys to Saint Peter (1481–1482). “Although he was of mean appearance and ignoble character, he had an unmistakable power in painting mild-eyed Madonnas and spotless saints against delicate landscape backgrounds,” the biographer Jennie Ellis Keysor once wrote of him. Born Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci c. 1450 in Città della Pieve, Italy, little is known of his early life but it is thought he may have been the pupil of Fiorenzo di Lorenzo in Perugia. By 1472, Perugino was living in Florence, where he apprenticed alongside Leonardo da Vinci in the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio. In the years that followed, the artist produced a number of frescoes for churches and palaces. Unlike his larger religious scenes, Perugino’s portraits show the influence of the Flemish painter Hans Memling in their elegant simplicity. The artist’s most famous pupil was Raphael, whose work assimilated certain aspects of Perugino’s paintings but later surpassed them. He died in 1523 in Fontignano, Italy. Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, and the National Gallery in London, among others.

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Pietro Perugino (158 results)

Portrait de jeune homme en habit Renaissance...

Style of Pietro Perugino

Portrait de jeune homme en habit Renaissance...

Sale Date: December 4, 2013

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Vierge en prière, 1575–1599

Follower of Pietro Perugino

Vierge en prière, 1575–1599

Sale Date: October 25, 2013

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Pietà in weiter Landschaft

Pietro Perugino

Pietà in weiter Landschaft

Sale Date: September 19, 2013

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Tobias und der Engel

After Pietro Perugino

Tobias und der Engel

Sale Date: June 11, 2013

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Maria mit Kind und den heiligen Johannes d. T....

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Maria mit Kind und den heiligen Johannes d. T....

Sale Date: June 11, 2013

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Deposizione

School of Pietro Perugino

Sale Date: May 18, 2013

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The Madonna and Child seated before a sculpted...

Circle of Pietro Perugino

The Madonna and Child seated before a sculpted...

Sale Date: January 29, 2013

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The Madonna kneeling before the Christ Child,...

Follower of Pietro Perugino

The Madonna kneeling before the Christ Child,...

Sale Date: January 30, 2013

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The Madonna and Child

Circle of Pietro Perugino

The Madonna and Child

Sale Date: July 11, 2012

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Combat de l'ange contre la femme, 1800–1899

Manner/Style of Pietro Perugino

Combat de l'ange contre la femme, 1800–1899

Sale Date: November 18, 2011

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La Madonna del Sacco, 1800–1899

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La Madonna del Sacco, 1800–1899

Sale Date: September 15, 2011

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Saint Lawrence baptizing the gaoler Hippolytus

Circle of Pietro Perugino

Saint Lawrence baptizing the gaoler Hippolytus

Sale Date: July 6, 2011

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The Madonna del latte

Follower of Pietro Perugino

The Madonna del latte

Sale Date: October 27, 2010

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A cupid with two doves

Follower of Pietro Perugino

A cupid with two doves

Sale Date: June 9, 2010

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Den heliga familjen med Johannes Döparen

Circle of Pietro Perugino

Den heliga familjen med Johannes Döparen

Sale Date: June 2, 2010

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Saint Sébastien, 1500–1599

Follower of Pietro Perugino

Saint Sébastien, 1500–1599

Sale Date: April 14, 2010

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The Madonna del Latte

Follower of Pietro Perugino

The Madonna del Latte

Sale Date: April 28, 2010

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Madonna and child with the infant Saint John the

Follower of Pietro Perugino

Madonna and child with the infant Saint John the

Sale Date: January 29, 2010

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Madonna enthroned between St. John and..., 1900–1925

After Pietro Perugino

Madonna enthroned between St. John and..., 1900–1925

Sale Date: October 21, 2009

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Maria Maddalena

After Pietro Perugino

Maria Maddalena

Sale Date: October 5, 2009

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Two standing male figures

School of Pietro Perugino

Two standing male figures

Sale Date: July 8, 2009

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Vierge à l'Enfant et Saint Jean Baptiste

Studio of Pietro Perugino

Vierge à l'Enfant et Saint Jean Baptiste

Sale Date: June 10, 2009

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Saint Bernard en prière

Studio of Pietro Perugino

Saint Bernard en prière

Sale Date: March 26, 2009

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Minerva

In the manner of Pietro Perugino

Sale Date: December 2, 2008

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