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living 1469; died 1523. Image: Pietro Perugino. Giovanni Santi described the young Perugino as the artistic equal of Leonardo: 'Two young ones, equal in their gifts and ages, Leonardo da Vinci and Perugino, Piero from Pieve, divine painter.'. By the end of his life, however, his sweet light manner, unchanging from the 1490s, had been surpassed ...
View all 178 artworks. Pietro Perugino lived in the XV – XVI cent., a remarkable figure of Italian High Renaissance. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
Perugino's most famous pupil was, of course, Raphael. Born in Città della Pieve about 1450, Pietro Vannucci evidently received his initial training in his native Umbria. According to Vasari, his teacher was the Florentine painter/sculptor Verrocchio, and several Verrocchiesque pictures have accordingly been assigned to Perugino's early years ...
Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci) Italian, 1445/46-1523. Perugino’s serene and decorous art was widely influential in his native region of Umbria and beyond, most famously through his contact with the young Raphael.
Watch on. When Pietro Vanucci, known as Perugino, painted his version of the Marriage of the Virgin, he ran the most prestigious artist’s workshop in Italy; his reputation rested primarily on the leading role that he had played in the decoration of the middle register in the Sistine Chapel some twenty years earlier.
Perugino , orig. Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci, (born c. 1450, Città della Pieve, near Perugia, Romagna—died February/March 1523, Fontignano, near Perugia), Italian painter. Born near Perugia (the source of his nickname), he was probably a pupil of Piero della Francesca and Andrea del Verrocchio.
Artist: Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci) (Italian, Città della Pieve, active by 1469–died 1523 Fontignano) Medium: Tempera on wood. Dimensions: 10 5/8 x 18 in. (27 x 45.7 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1911. Accession Number: 11.65.
