Pietro Vannucci, called PeruginoWilliamson, George C.
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Pietro Vannucci, called Perugino
Williamson, George C.
Perugino, approximately 1450-1523
_This picture was begun in 1503 by Filippino Lippi for the brethren
of SS. Annunziata de Servi, at the expense of Jacopo Federighi, a
Knight of Malta. Upon Filippino's death in April 1504 it was
completed by Perugino._
=Drawings.=
Case 255. Nos 411, 412, 413. Study for the "Deposition from the
Cross" in the Pitti Gallery. Silver paint in bistre
touched up with white, on grey paper.
254. 407. Five figures turning to the right.
409. St Francis. Study for figure in picture in SS.
Annunziata. Pen and ink.
418. St. Jerome kneeling.
253. 1307. Virgin and Child.
1147. Figure of a young man.
402. Venus and Cupid. Etching in bistre touched up
in white for the Cambio.
1317. Figure of a monk.
252. 1320. An angel and a lily.
400. Pericles. Pen and ink. For the Cambio.
1435. Figure of a monk.
416. Head of
1115. Vision of St. Bernard. Study for the picture at
Munich, 1024.
408. St. Catherine; and on the reverse of it, Four Loves.
Pen and ink.
363. Madonna and Child. Study for the picture at
Perugia. Sala XI. 6.
401. Moses. For the Cambio.
511. Two figures.
Case 251. 415. Socrates. For the Cambio.
405. Group of five Apostles. Study for the Assumption
at SS. Annunziata.
417. The Madonna. Study for the figure in Sta. Maria
dei Pazzi.
403. Three Apostles. Study for the Assumption at
Borgo San Sepolcro. Etched in bistre, heightened
with white on tinted paper. On the back of
252, 400, is a Christ on the Cross, in silver paint
on blue paper. Study for the Sta. Maria de
Pazzi picture.
256. 309. The Cumean Sibyl. For the Cambio.
FLORENCE, CHAPTER-HOUSE OF SANTA MARIA MADDALENA DEI PAZZI.
=The Crucifixion.= This is a very large fresco in three compartments.
Circa 1496.
In the centre is Our Lord upon the Cross, with Mary Magdalen
kneeling. In the right division, St. John and St. Benedict. In the
left, the Virgin and St. Bernard. Each division is framed by an
archway of pillars.
There are studies in the Uffizi for the "Madonna," 251, 417; and for
the "Christ on the Cross," 252, 400.
FLORENCE, CHURCH OF SS. ANNUNZIATA.
In the fifth chapel on the left is a =Virgin and Child enthroned between
St. John Baptist and St. Francis=, much of which was probably painted by
the pupils of Perugino.
There is a study for the St. Francis in the Uffizi, 254, 409.
In the seventh Chapel is an =Assumption of the Virgin.=
The Madonna is in a luminous mandorla of rays and surrounded by
angels and cherubs, while below on the ground the apostles and holy
women, who are gazing up into heaven.
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