Italian painter, Umbrian school (b. 1450, Citta della Pieve, d. 1523, Perugia). Italian painter and draughtsman. He was active in Perugia, Florence and Rome in the late 15th century and early 16th. Although he is now known mainly as the teacher of Raphael, he made a significant contribution to the development of painting from the style of the Early Renaissance to the High Renaissance. The compositional model he introduced, combining the Florentine figural style with an Umbrian use of structure and space,  Related Paintings of PERUGINO, Pietro :. | Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter | St Nicholas of Tolentino a | The Pazzi Crucifixion (detail | Christ Handing the Keys to St. Peter (detail) af | Fresco in the Palazzo the prioris in Perugia, Italy |
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Francois Lemoine
1688-1737
COUSIN, Jean the Elder
French High Renaissance Painter, ca.1495-1560
Franz Kruger
1797-1857 German Franz Kruger Gallery