Perugino

[per-oo-jee-noh, pe-roo-jee-naw]

noun

1. Pietro Vannucci, 1446–1524, Italian painter.

Perugino

/ peruˈdʒino /

noun

1. Il (il), real name Pietro Vannucci. 1446–1523, Italian painter; master of Raphael. His works include the fresco Christ giving the Keys to Peter in the Sistine Chapel, Rome

Other Word Forms

• Peruginesque adjective

Example Sentences

Perugino was one of the most influential artists of the Italian Renaissance.

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Yet as the group sat amid Renaissance frescoes by the likes of Michelangelo, Botticelli and Perugino — undisputedly one of the high points of papal art patronage — not all of those present had a traditional religious bent.

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Witnesses at the Vatican’s Perugino gate, one of the main entrances to the city state, told The Associated Press that Francis greeted guards as he usually does before returning to his residence.

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Witnesses at the Vatican’s Perugino gate, one of the main entrances to the city state, told The Associated Press Francis returned to the Vatican a short while later, and greeted guards as he usually does.

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Inside the Sistine Chapel, where in the past I have been shoved and elbowed by the crowds, about 30 spectators were awing over Perugino’s frescoes and craning to see Michelangelo’s burly musclemen on the ceiling.

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