Pinturicchio Italian Early Renaissance Painter,
1454-1513
was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He was born in Perugia, the son of Benedetto or Betto di Blagio. He may have trained under lesser known Perugian painters such as Bonfigli and Fiorenzo di Lorenzo. According to Vasari, Pinturrichio was a paid assistant of Perugino. The works of the Perugian Renaissance school are very similar; and paintings by Perugino, Pinturicchio, Lo Spagna and a young Raphael may often be mistaken one for the other. Bernard of Clairvaux between Louis of Toulouse and Anthony of Padua Bernard of Clairvaux between Louis of Toulouse and Anthony of Padua, by Pinturicchio, Santa Maria in Aracoeli, Rome
