Umbria - Finestre sull'Arte

The Greccio nativity scene of St. Francis according to Giotto

In one of the scenes frescoed by Giotto in the cycle of the Stories of St. Francis that adorns the walls of the Upper Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, one can see the saint, kneeling in front of a kind of box, with a child in his hands: this is the...
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Città della Pieve, guided tours at night and behind closed doors at Perugino tribute exhibition

The exhibition ...at the baptism was called Peter. Perugino in Città della P ieve set up over three exhibition venues in Perugino's hometown of Città della Pieve, Città della Pieve, until September 30, 2023 kicks off guided tours...
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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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