Painting ID:: 8515
Madonna with Child and Little St John af 1497
Oil on wood, 73 x 52 cm
Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt
PERUGINO, Pietro Italian painter, Umbrian school (b. 1450, Citta della Pieve, d. 1523, Perugia).
Italian painter and draughtsman. He was active in Perugia, Florence and Rome in the late 15th century and early 16th. Although he is now known mainly as the teacher of Raphael, he made a significant contribution to the development of painting from the style of the Early Renaissance to the High Renaissance. The compositional model he introduced, combining the Florentine figural style with an Umbrian use of structure and space, Madonna with Child and Little St John af 1497
Oil on wood, 73 x 52 cm
Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt