UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Pietoro Perugino
(1450, Citta della Pieve - 1523, Perugia)

Studied with Verrocchio
Pupil of Piero della Francesca
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
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