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.

Pietro Perugino Artworks

Pietro Perugino (158 results)
Coronation of the Virgin with Saints

In the manner of Pietro Perugino

Coronation of the Virgin with Saints

Sale Date: December 2, 2008

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The Lamentation of Christ

Follower of Pietro Perugino

The Lamentation of Christ

Sale Date: September 9, 2008

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Coronation of the Virgin

In the manner of Pietro Perugino

Coronation of the Virgin

Sale Date: July 15, 2008

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The Madonna and Child with an angel in a landscape

Circle of Pietro Perugino

The Madonna and Child with an angel in a landscape

Sale Date: July 9, 2008

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La Vierge à l'Enfant entre Saint Jérôme et..., 1502

Pietro Perugino

La Vierge à l'Enfant entre Saint Jérôme et..., 1502

Sale Date: June 4, 2008

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Madonna and Child with the infant St. John the...

In the manner of Pietro Perugino

Madonna and Child with the infant St. John the...

Sale Date: June 6, 2008

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Madonna mit Kind

In the manner of Pietro Perugino

Madonna mit Kind

Sale Date: March 13, 2008

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Madonna and Child with the infant St. John the...

In the manner of Pietro Perugino

Madonna and Child with the infant St. John the...

Sale Date: January 26, 2008

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The Baptism of Christ

In the manner of Pietro Perugino

The Baptism of Christ

Sale Date: December 13, 2007

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The Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John

Follower of Pietro Perugino

The Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John

Sale Date: December 5, 2007

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Saint Bernard en prière

Studio of Pietro Perugino

Saint Bernard en prière

Sale Date: November 23, 2007

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Saint Placidus

After Pietro Perugino

Saint Placidus

Sale Date: November 1, 2007

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Perseus, Perseo

After Pietro Perugino

Perseus, Perseo

Sale Date: June 19, 2007

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La Vierge à l'Enfant avec saint Jean-Baptiste et

Pietro Perugino

La Vierge à l'Enfant avec saint Jean-Baptiste et

Sale Date: March 21, 2007

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The Baptism of Christ

In the manner of Pietro Perugino

The Baptism of Christ

Sale Date: February 25, 2007

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Das Martyrium des heiligen Sebastians

Follower of Pietro Perugino

Das Martyrium des heiligen Sebastians

Sale Date: October 5, 2006

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Portrait d'une fille (Andrea d'Assisi detto...

Manner/Style of Pietro Perugino

Portrait d'une fille (Andrea d'Assisi detto...

Sale Date: June 26, 2006

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A sheet of studies of figures, with Christ...

Circle of Pietro Perugino

A sheet of studies of figures, with Christ...

Sale Date: July 5, 2006

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A standing apostle turned to the right

Circle of Pietro Perugino

A standing apostle turned to the right

Sale Date: January 24, 2006

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Maria mit Kind vor vor einer weiten...

Follower of Pietro Perugino

Maria mit Kind vor vor einer weiten...

Sale Date: July 5, 2005

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Christ as the Man of Sorrows (+ The Madonna; pair)

In the manner of Pietro Perugino

Christ as the Man of Sorrows (+ The Madonna; pair)

Sale Date: June 30, 2005

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The Nativity

Circle of Pietro Perugino

The Nativity

Sale Date: July 9, 2004

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Portrait of a man in a black coat and black cap

Circle of Pietro Perugino

Portrait of a man in a black coat and black cap

Sale Date: July 7, 2004

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Faith, Hope and Charity, 1500–1510

Follower of Pietro Perugino

Faith, Hope and Charity, 1500–1510

Sale Date: April 21, 2004

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