PIETRO PERUGINO

BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION

• Painted during late 1400s, early 1500s
• Italian Renaissance painter
• Attended the Italian Umbrian school of art (painting)
• Paintings showed aspects of High Renaissance (1490-1527; time of the visual arts)
• Taught to paint & draw by the famous Luca Signorelli at the Umbrian school

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• By 1492 he was a painter at the confraternity of St. Luke
• He mainly painted frescos
• Majority of his paintings were religious, along with some self portraits
• Eventually he started working in a workshop; the Florentine
• In the beginning he was apprenticed at a young age to the local art shops, where his talents were discovered

HOW WAS PERUGINO MADE INTO THE ARTIST HE BECAME?

• From Citta Delle Pieve, Italy- between Siena and Perugia
• Spent most of his time in Perugia
• Began as a minor painter in Perugia
• Raphael (man he taught at his workshop- Florentine workshop) supported & helped him with his largest fresco
• Italy was very wealthy during the renaissance (Trade)

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• In Italy, Perugino was able to do frescos in chapels and churches
• People during the High Renaissance time period supported him
• During most of Perugino's life it was the High Renaissance; that's what he painted

WHY IS THIS PERSON CONSIDERED PART OF THE RENAISSANCE?

• Perugino's artwork has vanishing points; Example: "Delivery of the Keys" painting
• The man in "Pieta" and the baby in "The Virgin and Child" painting show humanism
• His paintings focused on religion
• All of his works have multiple characteristics of art during the Renaissance time
• Many of his works were in churches and chapels (shows how religious & important they were)

DELIVERY OF THE KEYS PAINTING- SISTINE CHAPEL, ROME

THE VIRGIN AND CHILD PAINTING

PIETA PAINTING