Perugino. Master of Raphael.
Mercator Fund| N° d'inventaire | 18661 |
| Format | 25 x 28.5 |
| Détails | 230 p., hardcover with dust jacket. |
| Publication | Brussels, 2014 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9789462300637 |
Considered by his contemporaries as one of the greatest painters in Italy, Pietro Vannucci, known as Perugino (circa 1430-1323), initiated a new style of painting during the last decades of the 15th century and the first decades of the 16th century. His crystalline art, with its harmonious colors and theatrical lighting, aroused great enthusiasm, making him one of the major representatives of the Italian Renaissance. The exhibition Perugino, Master (Raphael) highlights the essential contributions of this painter to the art and culture of his time, thanks to exceptional loans from the greatest Italian, European and American museums. The refinement of the compositions, the attention paid to the harmony of colors and the modeling of the bodies testify to his exceptional technical mastery. Inventor of new pictorial rules, Perugino created an artistic language that would spread throughout Europe. Bringing together the fifty works presented in the exhibition, this catalog is published under the direction of Vittoria Garibaldi, former Superintendent for Historical, Artistic and Ethnoanthropological Heritage of Umbria and general curator of the exhibition. It traces the major stages of Perugino's career, from his training, marked by Florentine painting of the second half of the 15th century, to his great successes in Rome and Perugia. An artistic figure as important as he was original, Perugino exerted a major influence on his contemporaries, particularly on the young Raphael.
Considered by his contemporaries as one of the greatest painters in Italy, Pietro Vannucci, known as Perugino (circa 1430-1323), initiated a new style of painting during the last decades of the 15th century and the first decades of the 16th century. His crystalline art, with its harmonious colors and theatrical lighting, aroused great enthusiasm, making him one of the major representatives of the Italian Renaissance. The exhibition Perugino, Master (Raphael) highlights the essential contributions of this painter to the art and culture of his time, thanks to exceptional loans from the greatest Italian, European and American museums. The refinement of the compositions, the attention paid to the harmony of colors and the modeling of the bodies testify to his exceptional technical mastery. Inventor of new pictorial rules, Perugino created an artistic language that would spread throughout Europe. Bringing together the fifty works presented in the exhibition, this catalog is published under the direction of Vittoria Garibaldi, former Superintendent for Historical, Artistic and Ethnoanthropological Heritage of Umbria and general curator of the exhibition. It traces the major stages of Perugino's career, from his training, marked by Florentine painting of the second half of the 15th century, to his great successes in Rome and Perugia. An artistic figure as important as he was original, Perugino exerted a major influence on his contemporaries, particularly on the young Raphael.