Perugino

A gifted new artist from Umbria had just been brought up, Pietro Vannucci, who was called Perugino after the town of his birth.

The Poet Prince KATHLEEN MCGOWAN 2010

The figures of the soldiers on the steps recall Perugino in the manner of treatment -- dark against light, and well detached from the background.

Luca Signorelli Maud Cruttwell

He was called Perugino, although he often signed his name

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

To turn from Signorelli to Perugino is to plunge at once into a very different atmosphere [217].

Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts John Addington Symonds 1866

[217] Pietro, known as Perugino from the city of his adoption, was the son of Cristoforo Vannucci, of Città della Pieve.

Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts John Addington Symonds 1866

He called Perugino _goffo_, told Francia's son that his father made handsomer men by night than by day, and cast in

Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts John Addington Symonds 1866

Perugia's most celebrated painter, Pietro Vannucci, who was also known as Perugino, once had an even more famous pupil: the Renaissance master Raphael.

NYT > Home Page By INGRID K. WILLIAMS 2011

What were the conditions of and attitudes toward the creation of painting, both within a studio such as Perugino's and within the practice of other artists in Italy at that time?

Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: Digitization at the Hood Museum, but not for public view. 2006

A Catholic Mom in Hawaii: Fine Art Friday - Pietro Vannucci "Perugino"

Fine Art Friday - Pietro Vannucci "Perugino" Esther 2009

It's never clear if his oddness is willed and sophisticated, as a mannerist device (he was a Florentine colleague of Pontormo and Bronzino) or is the product of someone trained in old-fashioned styles (he studied with Perugino) trying, and failing, to come completely up-to-date.

Gopnik's Daily Pic: Bacchiacca in Baltimore Blake Gopnik 2010