词条 | Perugino |
释义 | Perugino Italian painter Introduction byname of Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci born c. 1450, Città della Pieve, near Perugia, Romagna 【Italy】 died , February/March 1523, Fontignano, near Perugia ![]() Early work Nothing is known for certain of Perugino's early training, but he may have been a pupil of Fiorenzo di Lorenzo (c. 1440–1525), a minor painter in Perugia, and of the renowned Umbrian Piero della Francesca (c. 1420–92) in Arezzo, in which case he would have been a fellow pupil of one of his most famous contemporaries, Luca Signorelli (Signorelli, Luca). The two men were acquainted, and an occasional influence from Signorelli is visible in Perugino's work, notably in the direction of an increased hardness of drawing (e.g., Crucifixion and Saints, c. 1480–1500). In Florence, where he is first recorded in 1472, he almost certainly worked in the shop of the painter and sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio (Verrocchio, Andrea del), where the young Leonardo da Vinci was apprenticed. The first certain work by Perugino is a Saint Sebastian, at Cerqueto, near Perugia. This fresco (a mural painted on wet plaster with water-soluble pigments) dates from 1478 and is typical of Perugino's style. He must have attained a considerable reputation by this time, since he probably worked for Pope Sixtus IV in Rome, 1478–79, on frescoes now lost. Sixtus IV also employed him to paint a number of the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican Palace. Completed between 1481 and 1482, three narrative scenes behind the altar were destroyed by Michelangelo in 1535–36 in order to use the space for his fresco of the Last Judgment. Of the scenes completely by Perugino's own hand, only the fresco Giving of the Keys to St. Peter has survived. The simple and lucid arrangement of the composition reveals the centre of narrative action, unlike the frescoes in the same series by the Florentine painter Sandro Botticelli (Botticelli, Sandro), which, in comparison, appear overcrowded and confused in their narrative focus. After completing his work in the Sistine Chapel, Perugino returned to Florence, where he was commissioned to work in the Palazzo della Signoria. In 1491 he was invited to sit on the committee concerned with finishing the Florence cathedral. Mature work ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Late work ![]() In 1508 he made a temporary comeback by painting roundels on the ceiling of the Stanza dell'Incendio in the Vatican. The commission for the frescoes on the walls of the room went to his pupil Raphael, who, in the few years after leaving Perugino's studio, proved himself the greater artist. One of Perugino's last commissions was the completion in 1521 of some frescoes in S. Severo, Perugia, which had been begun by Raphael. He was still painting in February or March 1523 when he died of the plague. The fresco of the Nativity comes from Fontignano and is generally supposed to be Perugino's last work. Additional Reading The most complete documentation on Perugino is Fiorenzo Canuti, Il Perugino, 2 vol. (1931, reprinted 1983); useful modern monographs include Ettore Camesasca (ed.), Tutta la pittura del Perugino (1959), and L'opera completa del Perugino (1969). Later works include Joseph Antenucci Becherer et al., Pietro Perugino: Master of the Italian Renaissance (1997), an exhibition catalog; and Vittoria Garibaldi, Perugino (1997, originally published in Italian, 1997). |
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