Pietro Perugino was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school who developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance. Raphael became his most famous pupil
Self-portrait, 1497–1500
The Delivery of the Keys fresco, 1481–1482, Sistine Chapel, Rome
God the Father and angels by Pietro Perugino on the ceiling of Stanza dell'Incendio del Borgo
The Sistine Chapel is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the pope's official residence in Vatican City. Originally known as the Cappella Magna, it takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who had it built b
East side of the Chapel, from the altar end
The Sistine Chapel as it may have appeared in the 15th century (19th-century drawing)
Exterior of the Sistine Chapel.
A reconstruction of the appearance of the west Wall chapel in the 1480s, prior to the painting of the ceiling.