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)

Saint Jerome in his study

Workshop of Pietro Perugino

Saint Jerome in his study

Sale Date: April 24, 2024

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Madonna con il Bambino

Circle of Pietro Perugino

Madonna con il Bambino

Sale Date: April 4, 2024

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Buste d’homme de trois-quarts vers la gauche,...

Pietro Perugino

Buste d’homme de trois-quarts vers la gauche,...

Sale Date: March 21, 2024

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MARIA MIT DEM KIND UND VIER ENGELN

Follower of Pietro Perugino

MARIA MIT DEM KIND UND VIER ENGELN

Sale Date: March 21, 2024

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Madonna con il Bambino

Follower of Pietro Perugino

Madonna con il Bambino

Sale Date: December 11, 2023

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Tobie et l'ange

Follower of Pietro Perugino

Tobie et l'ange

Sale Date: November 22, 2023

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Der Heilige Sebastian

After Pietro Perugino

Der Heilige Sebastian

Sale Date: October 4, 2023

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CROCEFISSIONE

Follower of Pietro Perugino

CROCEFISSIONE

Sale Date: October 10, 2023

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La Vierge à l'Enfant avec le petit saint Jean et

Pietro Perugino

La Vierge à l'Enfant avec le petit saint Jean et

Sale Date: June 30, 2023

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Portrait of Perugino

Follower of Pietro Perugino

Portrait of Perugino

Sale Date: May 30, 2023

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Santi

Follower of Pietro Perugino

Sale Date: May 25, 2023

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Saint Sebastian

Workshop of Pietro Perugino

Saint Sebastian

Sale Date: May 3, 2023

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Virgin and Child with saint John the Baptist

Pietro Perugino

Virgin and Child with saint John the Baptist

Sale Date: March 28, 2023

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The Madonna and Child with two cherubs

After Pietro Perugino

The Madonna and Child with two cherubs

Sale Date: April 4, 2023

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The

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The "Pazzi" Crucifixion

Sale Date: January 11, 2023

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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 26, 2023

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La Vierge à l'Enfant avec le petit saint Jean et

School of Pietro Perugino

La Vierge à l'Enfant avec le petit saint Jean et

Sale Date: December 2, 2022

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Madonna and Child with a young Saint John the...

Circle of Pietro Perugino

Madonna and Child with a young Saint John the...

Sale Date: October 21, 2022

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Christ and the Woman of Samaria

Follower of Pietro Perugino

Christ and the Woman of Samaria

Sale Date: June 29, 2022

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MADONNA DEL SACCO

Workshop of Pietro Perugino

MADONNA DEL SACCO

Sale Date: May 11, 2022

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The Madonna and Child enthroned with Saint...

Workshop of Pietro Perugino

The Madonna and Child enthroned with Saint...

Sale Date: May 11, 2022

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Virgin and Child and St. John the Baptist in a...

Style of Pietro Perugino

Virgin and Child and St. John the Baptist in a...

Sale Date: March 11, 2022

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圣母玛利亚出现在圣伯恩哈德石版画

Pietro Perugino

圣母玛利亚出现在圣伯恩哈德石版画

Sale Date: December 2, 2021

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MADONNA DEL SACCO

Workshop of Pietro Perugino

MADONNA DEL SACCO

Sale Date: September 11, 2021

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