Italian
1450-1523
Pietro Perugino Galleries
Italian painter and draughtsman. He was active in Perugia, Florence and Rome in the late 15th century and early 16th. Although he is now known mainly as the teacher of Raphael, he made a significant contribution to the development of painting from the style of the Early Renaissance to the High Renaissance. The compositional model he introduced, combining the Florentine figural style with an Umbrian use of structure and space, was taken up by Raphael and became widely influential throughout Europe. Related Paintings of Pietro Perugino :. | Assumption of the Virgin with Four Saints | Vallombrosa Altar | Detail of the Saint Augustine Polyptych | The Vision of St Bernard | St.Sebastian | Related Artists:
Robert Walter WeirJun 18.1803-May 1.1889, Painter and teacher. By his own account he was self-taught, with the exception of a few lessons from an unknown heraldic painter named Robert Cooke. However, after exhibiting a few works that were praised by the local press, he was sent to Italy by a group of New York and Philadelphia businessmen for further studies. There he trained with Florentine history painter Pietro Benvenuti. After three years in Europe (1824-7), he returned to New York, where he quickly became a mainstay of the artistic community. In 1831 he was elected to membership in the National Academy of Design in New York, and three years later he was made instructor of drawing at the US Military Academy in West Point, New York, a post he held for the next 42 years.
KESSEL, Jan vanDutch Baroque Era Painter, ca.1626-1679
samuel pepysBorn: 23 February 1633
Birthplace: London, England
Died: 16 May 1703
Best Known As: Author of Samuel Pepys' diaries