PERUGINO

Pietro Perugino (1448 – 1523), was one of the great painters who frescoed the Sistine Chapel.

These frescoes were painted with the help of Luca Signorelli and Pinturicchio, but some of them were destroyed. Have survived: the Baptism of Christ, the Journey of Moses in Egypt, the Delivery of the Keys and the portraits of some popes.

Perugino, in the Vatican, painted also the vault of what, under Julius II, would become the Room of the Fire, which Raffaello, out of respect for his old teacher, saved from the destructive fury of the Pope.

In Santa Maria sopra Minerva, in the chapel Grazioli, you can admire a portrait of Jesus.

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