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Pietro Perugino
Italian Renaissance painter, draftsman & illuminator
born circa 1445 - died 1523
Born in: Città della Pieve (Perugia, Umbria, Italy).
Died in: Fontignano (Perugia, Umbria, Italy).
Also known as: Pedro Perugeno, Pierre Pérugin, Pietro Perugini, Pedro
Perugino, Pietro da Perugia, Pedro Peruggino, Pietro Pérugin, Pietro di
Cristoforo di Vannucci Perugino, Pietro Vannucci Perugino, Pedro
Perujeno, Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci.
Student of: Andrea del Verrocchio (1435-1488).
Teacher of: Raphael (1483-1520).
Collaborated with: Bernardino Pinturicchio (c.1454-1513) from 1450 to 1523.
PERUGINO, PIETRO (1446-1524), whose correct family name was VANNUCCI,
Italian painter, was born in 1446 at Citta della Pieve in Umbria, and
belongs to the Umbrian school of painting. The name of Perugino came to
him from Perugia, the chief city of the neighborhood. Pietro was one of
several children born to Cristoforo Vannucci, a member of a respectable
family settled at Citta della Pieve. Though respectable, they seem to
have been poor, or else, for some reason or other, to have left Pietro
uncared for at the opening of his career. Before he had completed his
ninth year the boy was articled to a master, a painter at Perugia. Who
this may have been is very uncertain; the painter is spoken of as wholly
mediocre, but sympathetic for the great things in his art. Benedetto
Bonfigli [BIO] is generally surmised; if he is rejected as being above
mediocrity, either Fiorenzo di Lorenzo or Niccolo da Foligno may
possibly have been the man. Pietro painted a little at Arezzo; thence he
went to the headquarters of art, Florence, and frequented the famous
Brancacci Chapel in the church of the Carmine. It appears to be
sufficiently established that he studied in the atelier of Andrea del Verrocchio, where Leonardo de Vinci was also a
pupil. He may have learned perspective, in which he particularly
excelled for that period of art, from Piero de Franceschi. The date of
this first Florentine sojourn is by no means settled; some authorities
incline to make it as early as 1470. while others, with perhaps better
reason, postpone it till 1479. Pietro at this time was extremely poor;
he had no bed, but slept on a chest for many months, and, bent upon
making his way, resolutely denied himself every creature comfort. |
