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PIETRO PERUGINO
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Perugino self-portrait, 1497–1500 |
- Pietro Perugino born Pietro Vannucci
(c.1446/1452-1523) was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school who developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance.
- Raphael became his most famous pupil.
- Pietro most likely began studying painting in local workshops in Perugia such as those of Bartolomeo Caporali or Fiorenzo di Lorenzo.
- The date of the first Florentine sojourn is unknown; some
make it as early as 1466–1470, others push the date to 1479.
- According to Vasari, he was apprenticed to the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio alongside Leonardo da Vinci, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Lorenzo di Credi, Filippino Lippi, and others.
- Piero della Francesca is thought to have taught him perspective form. In 1472, he must have completed his apprenticeship since he was enrolled as a master in the Confraternity of St Luke.
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Perugino was one of the earliest central Italian practitioners of oil painting. Some of his early works were extensive frescoes for the convent of the Gesuati fathers at San Giusto alle Mura, destroyed during the Siege of Florence; he produced many cartoons for them also, which they executed with brilliant effect in stained glass.
(Wikipedia)
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