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Pietro Perugino

1446 - 1523

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Pietro Perugino (US: PERR-ə-JEE-noh, -⁠oo-; Italian: [ˈpjɛːtro peruˈdʒiːno]; born Pietro Vannucci or Pietro Vanucci; c. 1446/1452 – 1523), an Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school, developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance. Raphael became his most famous pupil. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pietro Perugino is the 74th most popular painter (up from 84th in 2019), the 283rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 275th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Italian Painter.

Pietro Perugino is most famous for his frescoes in the Sistine Chapel.

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Among painters, Pietro Perugino ranks 74 out of 2,023. Before him are Théodore Géricault, Francisco de Zurbarán, Ilya Repin, Frans Hals, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, and Henri Rousseau. After him are Rogier van der Weyden, Alfred Sisley, Gustave Doré, Bob Ross, Jackson Pollock, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1446, Pietro Perugino ranks 1. After him are Margaret of York, Alexander Agricola, Charles of Valois, Duke of Berry, Francesco Botticini, Ippolita Maria Sforza, and Charles IV of Anjou. Among people deceased in 1523, Pietro Perugino ranks 2. Before him is Pope Adrian VI. After him are Luca Signorelli, Ulrich von Hutten, Gerard David, Mehmed I Giray, Antonio Grimani, Franz von Sickingen, Prospero Colonna, Bartolomeo Montagna, Bernardino López de Carvajal, and Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Pietro Perugino ranks 283 out of 5,161. Before him are Arcangelo Corelli (1653), Pope Celestine IV (1200), Scipio Africanus (-235), Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625), Luchino Visconti (1906), and Vitus (290). After him are Cosimo de' Medici (1389), Pope Eugene I (600), Pope Cornelius (200), Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710), Sergio Leone (1929), and Zita of Bourbon-Parma (1892).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Pietro Perugino ranks 21. Before him are Artemisia Gentileschi (1593), Giorgione (1478), Giovanni Bellini (1430), Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448), Piero della Francesca (1415), and Andrea Mantegna (1431). After him are Canaletto (1697), Bronzino (1503), Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696), Duccio (1255), Cimabue (1240), and Paolo Uccello (1475).

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