
Pietro Pérugin
1448–1523 · États pontificaux · École ombrienne
L'histoire
Around 1470 Pietro Perugino arrived in Florence, Italy, and joined the workshop of the sculptor and painter Andrea del Verrocchio, working alongside future rivals and colleagues including the painters Sandro Botticelli, Domenico Ghirlandaio and, for a time, the young Leonardo da Vinci. Ten years later Pope Sixtus IV called him to Rome to help decorate the walls of a chapel newly built inside the Vatican.
That chapel was the Sistine Chapel, and Perugino led the team of Florentine and Umbrian painters brought in to fresco its side walls, decades before Michelangelo ever touched its ceiling. His scene there, Christ Handing the Keys to St Peter, painted around 1481, arranges its figures across a wide, calm piazza with clean architectural perspective, a composition later Renaissance painters studied closely.
Around 1500 a teenage painter from Urbino named Raphael entered Perugino's workshop in Perugia, a city in the Umbria region of central Italy, and absorbed that same calm, spacious style before leaving to develop it further in Florence and Rome. Perugino kept working into his seventies, painting frescoes in small Umbrian churches until his death near Perugia in 1523.
Œuvres
71 œuvres
Retable de FanoPietro Pérugin, 1497
Triptyque GalitzinePietro Pérugin, 1481
Dieu le Père avec deux saintsPietro Pérugin, 1477
Vierge en gloire avec des saintsPietro Pérugin, 1500
Vierge à l'Enfant avec saint Jean-Baptiste et un angePietro Pérugin, 1495
Portrait d'un jeune hommePietro Pérugin, 1495
Portrait de Lorenzo di CrediPietro Pérugin, 1488
Saint SébastienPietro Pérugin, 1490
Retable de TeziPietro Pérugin, 1500
Annonciation de FanoPietro Pérugin, 1488
Assomption de la ViergePietro Pérugin, 1506
Le Baptême du ChristPietro Pérugin, 1510
Vierge à l'Enfant avec les saints Jean l'Évangéliste et AugustinPietro Pérugin, 1494
Vierge à l'EnfantPietro Pérugin, 1496
Retable de la TransfigurationPietro Pérugin, 1517
Polyptyque de Saint-AugustinPietro Pérugin, 1502
Saint SébastienPietro Pérugin, 1493
Retable de SansepolcroPietro Pérugin, 1510
La Nativité de la ViergePietro Pérugin, 1472
La VisitationPietro Pérugin, 1470
Bannière de la JusticePietro Pérugin, 1501
Le Père éternel avec des chérubins et des angesPietro Pérugin, 1496
Bannière à la PietàPietro Pérugin, 1472
Vierge à l'Enfant avec deux saintesPietro Pérugin, 1493
Vierge à l'Enfant entre saint Herculanus et saint ConstancePietro Pérugin, 1515