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)

THE MADONNA AND CHILD ENTHRO- NED WITH SAINTS...

Workshop of Pietro Perugino

THE MADONNA AND CHILD ENTHRO- NED WITH SAINTS...

Sale Date: October 9, 1991

Auction Closed

DIE PREDIGT

Pietro Perugino

Sale Date: May 1, 1991

Auction Closed

AN ITALIANATE LANDSCAPE WITH PEASANTS BY A TREE,

Circle of Pietro Perugino

AN ITALIANATE LANDSCAPE WITH PEASANTS BY A TREE,

Sale Date: March 1, 1991

Auction Closed

THE PIETA

Workshop of Pietro Perugino

Sale Date: January 9, 1991

Auction Closed

THE MADONNA AND CHILD WITH TWO ANGELS

Circle of Pietro Perugino

THE MADONNA AND CHILD WITH TWO ANGELS

Sale Date: December 14, 1990

Auction Closed

THE PENITENT MAGDALEN

In the manner of Pietro Perugino

THE PENITENT MAGDALEN

Sale Date: December 13, 1990

Auction Closed

DIO PADRE CON DUE ANGELI E DUECHERUBINI

Attributed to Pietro Perugino

DIO PADRE CON DUE ANGELI E DUECHERUBINI

Sale Date: November 20, 1990

Auction Closed

CHRIST; THE MADONNA AND CHILD

Circle of Pietro Perugino

CHRIST; THE MADONNA AND CHILD

Sale Date: October 10, 1990

Auction Closed

PORTRAIT OF A MAN, SMALL BUST LENGTH, WEARING A...

In the manner of Pietro Perugino

PORTRAIT OF A MAN, SMALL BUST LENGTH, WEARING A...

Sale Date: September 13, 1990

Auction Closed

THE ALBIZZI PIETA: THE DEAD CHRIST WITH THE...

Pietro Perugino

THE ALBIZZI PIETA: THE DEAD CHRIST WITH THE...

Sale Date: July 4, 1990

Auction Closed

ST. MICHAEL & ST. RAPHAEL AND TOBIAS

After Pietro Perugino

ST. MICHAEL & ST. RAPHAEL AND TOBIAS

Sale Date: April 25, 1990

Auction Closed

The Agony in the Garden

After Pietro Perugino

The Agony in the Garden

Sale Date: April 4, 1990

Auction Closed

The Madonna, Saint Joseph, the infant Saint John

Circle of Pietro Perugino

The Madonna, Saint Joseph, the infant Saint John

Sale Date: December 8, 1989

Auction Closed

The Madonna and Child

School of Pietro Perugino

The Madonna and Child

Sale Date: October 12, 1989

Auction Closed

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