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Title: Perugino

Author: Selwyn Brinton

Release Date: October 5, 2009 [EBook #30180]

Language: English

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MASTERPIECES

IN COLOUR

EDITED BY

T. LEMAN HARE

PIETRO PERUGINO

(1446-1524)

[Illustration: PLATE I.--VIRGIN AND CHILD WITH ADORING ANGELS

(In the National Gallery, London)

This is the centre panel from the great altar-piece commissioned by
Duke Lodovico of Milan, from Perugino, for the Certosa of Pavia, and
completed in 1499.

The three lower panels are replaced in the church by copies, the
originals having been purchased from the Certosa by the Melzi family
in 1786, and sold by Duke Melzi to the National Gallery in 1856. A
masterpiece of Pietro's religious art, painted in his best method and
best period.]

Perugino

BY SELWYN BRINTON, M.A.

ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT

REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR

[Illustration: IN SEMPITERNUM]

LONDON: T. C. & E. C. JACK

NEW YORK: FREDERICK A. STOKES CO.

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Plate

I. Virgin and Child with Adoring Angels Frontispiece

In the National Gallery, London Page

II. St. Sebastian 14

In the Musee du Louvre, Paris

III. The Deposition from the Cross 24

In the Pitti Palace, Florence

IV. St. Mary Magdalen 34