Identifier: dictionaryofpain05brya (find matches)
Title: Dictionary of painters and engravers
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Bryan, Michael, 1757-1821 Williamson, George Charles, 1858-1942
Subjects: Painters Engravers
Publisher: London, G. Bell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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n Assumptionof the same size for the reverse of the altar-piece.The first commission he executed well, the secondso carelessly that Vasari 6tates that the monksgave the place of honour to the picture begunby Filippino Lippi. Of this picture, now in theAccademia, Lippi did the upper part, Peruginothe lower, and it is right to add that he 60 wellblended his work with the work of Lippi that thepicture is harmonious and delightful. An interesting commission reached him inPerugia in 1507. The executors of one GiovanniSchiavone, a master carpenter, commissioned analtar-piece for Sta. Maria Nuova de Servi, and thispicture now hangs in the National Gallery. TheSchiavone picture completed, Perugino left forFoligno, where a Baptism of Christ had beencommissioned for the church of SS. Annunziata. While at Foligno, Perugino received orders tocome to Rome. Pope Julius II. desired him todecorate some ceilings in the Vatican, but it is not u u D o z z £ Q 1—1 D o £/ g W H Cm w PL,
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PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS. very clear what the instructions really were. Oneceiling we know he decorated, that in the Cameradell Incendio, because when Raphael completedthe decoration of the series of rooms he spared thisceiling out of respect to his old master. Crowethinks that from Rome Perugino went to Assisi,where, at the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli,on the rear wall of the portiuncula, facing east, hepainted a fine Crucifixion. In Siena Peruginopainted a Crucifixion for the Cliigi altar in SanAgostino, for which he was paid 200 ducats.Orsini, at this stage, says that Perugino went toFlorence, but he was soon back in Perugia (1512),where he purchased two farms and a house.Mariotti records the transaction. In this same yearwe find the wandering artist at the little hill townof Bettona, so difficult of access, and situate near toAssisi, and the pictures which remain in proof ofhis visit are extraordinary and remarkable ones.Still journeying around Perugia, we find the artistvisit

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