Thursday,
May 10, 2007
'Italian Spring" Series in
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Renaissance
painter Perugino's Perugino
Divin Pittore Exhibition has
followed Leonardo da
Vinci to
This
major
The
importance of Perugino in the transition from Early Renaissance to High Renaissance can not be over stated.
Renaissance Master hits
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May 09, 2007
A major show f eaturing 14 paintings by the Umbrian
great has opened at the Sompo gallery - famous for Van Gogh's Sunflowers - in
Eighteen works by painters influenced by the High Renaissance master complete
the show, which has been made possible thanks to loans from
It is the second exhibition in the Italian Spring series after Leonardo's Annunciation, now on show at the Tokyo
National Museum, which has attracted more than 250,000 visitors in three weeks
after its high-profile and somewhat controversial loan from the Uffizi Gallery
in Florence.
Leading
Japanese art historian Shigetoshi Osano
helped inaugurate the Perugino show and gave a lecture to a packed audience at
the Italian Institute of Culture, on the importance of Perugino in the
transition from early Renaissance masters like Piero della Francesca and Verrocchio - his two inspirations - to
the High Renaissance geniuses Leonardo, Michelangelo and
Raphael.
The
Perugino
(c.1445 1523?) was born near
The
remaining fresco, Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter, is one of the greatest
paintings from the second half of the 15th century because of its simplicity
and clarity of composition, experts say. At the end of the 15th century
Perugino worked mainly in Florence, painting the Madonna with Saints and Angels
(Louvre);
Pieta' (Pitti Palace, Floren
ce); The Crucifixion, fresco (Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi, Florence); Madonna
Enthroned with Saints (Vatican); and The Crucifixion (National Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C.).
He
kept busy in his so-called last period (1505 23), mainly in
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