perugino's

Updated: June 1, 2025

Here, in the Uffizi, however, we have four of his best works the three great portraits, Francesco delle Opere , Alessandro Braccesi , and the Portrait of a Lady , long given to Raphael, but which Mr. Berenson assures us is Perugino's; and the Madonna and Child of the Tribuna, painted in 1493.

Edward Hutton - Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa: With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson: And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition

Now, may not the same exercise of the imagination account for those special mannerisms which have been noticed as observable in Perugino's figures? The great Umbrian painter was not a man who lived in the companionship and intimacy of the great and noble, as several of his successors of a generation or two later did.

Various - Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875

But it is the unquenchable thirst of the Umbrians for some spiritual nutriment, some outlet for their passion to be found only in bloodshed or fainting below the Cross, some fierce and untameable animal quality such as you see to-day in the torn gables, the towers and bastions of Perugia, it is the spirit which informed and made these things you get in Perugino's pictures in the hot sensualism of their colour-scheme, the ripeness and bloom of physical beauty encasing the vague longing of a too-rapid adolescence.

Maurice Henry Hewlett - Earthwork out of Tuscany: Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett