UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Pietoro Perugino
(1450, Citta della Pieve - 1523, Perugia)
| Studied with Verrocchio Pupil of Piero della Francesca |
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| 1472 | Enrolled as a painter in the fraternity of St Luke in Florence |
| 1475 | Back in Perugia |
| 1481 | Frescos on the walls of the newly built Sistine
Chapel, Rome Frescoed altarpiece of Sistine Chapel but destroyed to make way for Michelangelo's Last Judgement |
| 1490s | Have a workshop in Florence as well as in Perugia |
| 1500 | Decorated Audience Chamber of Collegio del
Cambio at Perugia Agostino Chigi, the wealthy Sienese banker and patron called Perugino the best painter in Italy |
| His style is gentle, pious, sentimental harmony, spatial clarity, idealized physical types | |
| 1505 | Left Florence where his work seemed old-fashioned and settled permanently in Perugia |
| Influenced Raphael and Pre-Raphaelites in 19th century | |