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| Pietro Perugino |
Pietro painted at Arezzo, then moved to Florence. He apprenticed in the atelier of Andrea del Verrocchio alongside Leonardo da Vinci. He may have studied perspective from Piero della Francesca. In 1472 he must have completed his apprenticeship, as he was enrolled as a painter in the confraternity of St Luke.
Perugino was one of the earliest Italian practitioners of oil painting. He returned from Florence to Perugia, where his Florentine training showed in the Adoration of the Magi for the church of Santa Maria dei Servi. In 1480, he was called to Rome to fresco panels for the Sistine Chapel walls by Sixtus IV. Pinturicchio accompanied him to Rome, and was made his partner, receiving a third of the profits. The Sistine frescoes were the major high renaissance Patronage in Rome. Also the altar wall was painted but these works were later ruthlessly destroyed to make a space for Michelangelo 'Last Judgement'.