Pietro Perugino worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Pietro Perugino as Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school (1448-1523).
Pietro Perugino was born at Città della Pieve in 1448. His recorded nationality is Italy.
This was the period in which the artist became an individual with a signature, a reputation and a price.
He worked as painter.
His recorded movement is umbrian school and renaissance.
Among his best-known works are Pietà, God the Father with Two Saints and Banner of Justice. An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
That the work was made in Italy shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Pietro Perugino died in 1523, aged 75. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Pietà
- Notable work: God the Father with Two Saints
- Notable work: Banner of Justice
- Notable work: Saint Bartholomew
- Movement: Umbrian school and Renaissance
