Madonna in Glory with the Child and Saints
Pietro Perugino
Pietro Perugino, born Pietro Vannucci, was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school, who developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance. Raphael was his most famous pupil.
Max Resolution:646×881 PX
Title:Madonna in Glory with the Child and Saints
Artists:Pietro Perugino
Date:1496
Style:High Renaissance
Genre:religious painting
Medium:oil
Location:Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Dimensions:265×330 cm
Copyright:Public domain
The Madonna in Glory with Saints is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Pietro Perugino, dating to c. 1500–1501. It is housed in the Pinacoteca Nazionale of Bologna, Italy.
It was originally located in the Scarani Chapel of the church of San Giovanni in Monte.
The scheme of the composition, typical of Perugino's mature works (based on the lost Assumption of the Sistine Chapel and used in numerous works of the period, such as the San Francesco al Prato Resurrection and the Vallombrosa Altarpiece), includes two different levels. The Madonna with Child, depicted within an almond in the upper part; and a group of four saints above a hilly landscape in the lower one.
The saints are, from the left: the Archangel Michael (with a decorated armor), Catherine of Alexandria (with her traditional attributed of the torture wheel), Apollonia (with the pincer of her martyrdom) and John the Evangelist, who has the Tetramorph eagle).
Perugino's signature (PETRUS PERUSINUS PINXIT) can be seen on Catherine's wheel.
It was originally located in the Scarani Chapel of the church of San Giovanni in Monte.
The scheme of the composition, typical of Perugino's mature works (based on the lost Assumption of the Sistine Chapel and used in numerous works of the period, such as the San Francesco al Prato Resurrection and the Vallombrosa Altarpiece), includes two different levels. The Madonna with Child, depicted within an almond in the upper part; and a group of four saints above a hilly landscape in the lower one.
The saints are, from the left: the Archangel Michael (with a decorated armor), Catherine of Alexandria (with her traditional attributed of the torture wheel), Apollonia (with the pincer of her martyrdom) and John the Evangelist, who has the Tetramorph eagle).
Perugino's signature (PETRUS PERUSINUS PINXIT) can be seen on Catherine's wheel.