Perugino

At about nine, Pietro Vannucci may have left his family’s home for a painter’s workshop in Perugia—with no one able to say for certain whose apprentice he became.

In Renaissance Umbria, the young Pietro learned amid a stream of artistic influences, from the religious painters of his own region to the measured perspective of Piero della Francesca. Selwyn Brinton traces the uncertain beginnings of the artist later called Perugino: his early training, his move to Florence to perfect his craft, and the rise that brought him to the Sistine Chapel, working alongside celebrated masters. But which teachers shaped his hand—and how did a provincial talent come to stand among the leading painters of his age?

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