Perugia - Finestre sull'Arte

The Chapel of San Severo in Perugia, where Raphael and Perugino painted the same wall

Tucked away among the medieval alleys of Perugia, after a steep climb, is a quiet and little-known place, far from the routes of mass tourism, where it is possible to see two great masters of art history side by side, in comparison, namel...
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From the Divine Painter to the Best Master of Italy. About the Perugino exhibition catalog.

Within the ambit of the Region of Umbria, and over the past three decades, institutions have promoted a series of restoration campaigns, recoveries and initiatives of various approaches, involving different forces directed toward the study and preser...
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The Monteripido Altarpiece: Perugino's work with two faces

In the center of the Perugino room in the National Gallery of Umbria is a particular work by Pietro Vannucci known as Perugino (Città della Pieve, c. 1450 - Fontignano, 1523): it is in fact the Monteripido Altarpiece, an opisthograph altarpie...
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The Polyptych of St. Augustine, Perugino's most complicated work

If you visit the Late Perugino room at the National Gallery of Umbria, where works from the extreme phase of the career of Pietro Vannucci known as Perugino (Città della Pieve, 1450 - Fontignano, 1523) are kept, you will notice two panels disp...
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Perugino, an exhibition celebrates the artist in his home town, Città della Pieve

Città della Pieve celebrates Perugino, the great Renaissance painter born in the Umbrian town itself, five hundred years after his death: from July 2 to September 30, Città della Pieve is in fact hosting the exhibition ...at his baptism...
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Perugino's Baptism of Christ, the work preserved in his Città della Pieve

Among the masterpieces that Pietro Vannucci, known as Perugino (Città della Pieve, c. 1450 - Fontignano, 1523) created for his home town, Città della Pieve, about an hour from Perugia, and that can still be admired today in the place fo...
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The pope's Perugino on display: the Resurrection on display at the Vatican Museums

We have always been accustomed to seeing it behind the pope's back during visits by heads of state: now, Perugino's Resurrection , the work by the great Renaissance artist usually kept in the pope's private library at the Apostolic Palace, is finally...
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Perugino's Corciano Altarpiece, a masterpiece in the place for which it was born

The small Umbrian village of Corciano preserves in the church of Santa Maria Assunta a masterpiece by Pietro Vannucci known as Perugino (Città della Pieve, c. 1450 - Fontignano, 1523): there are many tourists who come specifically to admire he...
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