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Artist

Perugino

Year
Città della Pieve ca. 1450 - 1523 Fontignano
Price range
500,000 – 3,000,000 USD +
Perugino was a major artist in late fifteenth-century Italy whose classical style contributed significantly to the evolution of Italian high renaissance painting.

Pietro Vannucci, better known as Perugino, was a major artist in late fifteenth-century Italy whose classical style—an innovative combination of Florentine disegno with an Umbrian sweetness and command of structure and space—contributed significantly to the evolution of Italian high renaissance painting. Unfairly, he is chiefly remembered as the teacher of Raphael (1483–1520) on whom he exerted a powerful influence. Perugino did in fact invent a poetic pictorial language which was entirely original.

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Market

Top 3 auction prices

606,761 $
1990
676,315 $
2013
855,000 $
2020

Details

The sales are: Sotheby’s London – 4 Jul 1990 lot 35 (341,000 GBP), Hampel Fine Art Auctions – 19 Sept 2013 lot 560 (500,000 EUR), and Christie’s New York – 28 Jan 2020 lot 12 (this is a work on paper). Updated 18th March 2024.
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Books on Perugino

Vittoria Garibaldi, ed., Le Pérugin: Maître de Raphaël, exh. cat., Brussels, 2014.

Vittoria Garibaldi, ed., Perugino Mai Visto, exh. cat., Perugia, 2010.

Vittoria Garibaldi and Francesco F. Mancini, Perugino, il Divin Pittore, exh. cat., Perugia, 2004.

Vittoria Garibaldi and Simonetta Innamorati, Perugino, Milan, 2004.

Vittoria Garibaldi, Perugino: Catalogo Completo, Florence, 1999.

Carlo Castellaneta, l’Opera Completa del Perugino, Milano, 1969.

Giorgio Vasari, The Lives of the Artist, 1550, trans. Julia Conway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella, New York, 2009.

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