Peter J. Murray
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Professor of the History of Art, Birkbeck College, University of London, 1967β80. Author of Architecture of the Italian Renaissance; coauthor of A Dictionary of Art and Artists.
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Perugino was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbria school and the teacher of Raphael. His work (e.g., Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter, 1481β82, a fresco in the Sistine Chapel in Rome) anticipated High Renaissance ideals in its compositional clarity, sense of spaciousness, and economy ofβ¦
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