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Christ Giving the Keys to Saint Peter is a fresco painted by Pietro Perugino and his workshop on the north wall of the Sistine Chapel in the early 1480s. It depicts Christ granting keys to Peter, an event understood in Catholic tradition as establishing Peter's authority. A broad paved square, caref...
Perugino's complete fresco cycle at Perugia's Collegio del Cambio, executed 1496–1500, blends Classical allegory with Christian devotion and is a key surviving monument of Umbrian Renaissance painting.
Rosso Fiorentino's Pala Dei is an altarpiece painted in 1522 for the Dei family chapel in the Florentine church of Santo Spirito and now housed in the Galleria Palatina at the Palazzo Pitti. It presents the Virgin and Child enthroned among saints in the traditional sacra conversazione format. The co...
The Certosa di Pavia Altarpiece is a Renaissance polyptych painted by Pietro Perugino for the Carthusian monastery known as the Certosa di Pavia. Created around the end of the fifteenth century, it presented sacred figures in Perugino's characteristically calm, balanced settings. The work was later...
The Polyptych of San Pietro is a Renaissance altarpiece painted by Pietro Perugino for the Benedictine church of San Pietro in Perugia. Completed around the end of the fifteenth century, it originally combined a monumental central sacred scene with subsidiary panels depicting saints and other devoti...
The Pala dei Decemviri is an altarpiece painted by Pietro Perugino for the chapel of Perugia's governing council, the Decemviri, in the Palazzo dei Priori. Its principal scene presents the Virgin and Child enthroned with saints, using the balanced arrangement, clear space, and restrained figures ass...
The Fano Altarpiece is a Renaissance devotional painting by Pietro Perugino, made for the church of Santa Maria Nuova in Fano, Italy. It depicts the Virgin and Child enthroned among saints in the unified format known as a sacra conversazione. The balanced arrangement, idealized figures, clear perspe...
The Polyptych of Albani-Torlonia is a multi-panel Italian altarpiece associated with the Albani and Torlonia collections in Rome, representing the early devotional panel-painting tradition.
