PINTURICCHIO (Bernardino di Betto Benedetto di Biagio)
Biography
Pinturicchio, real name Bernardino di Betto di
Biago (1454-1513), Italian painter of decorative frescoes. He was born
in Perugia. It is likely that he served as an assistant to Italian painter
Perugino, and worked on the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel at Rome. He
then painted frescoes in Santa Maria in Aracoeli in Rome illustrating the
life of Saint Bernardino of Siena around 1485. From 1492 to 1494, after
executing two works in the cathedral at Orvieto, he painted six frescoes
in the Borgia apartments (now the library) of the Vatican. From 1502 to
1507 he painted his last and most important works-the ten frescoes in the
Piccolomini Library of the Cathedral of Siena. They depict the life of
Pope Pius II, a member of the Piccolomini family, in brilliant color and
realistic detail. Among Pinturicchio's few surviving easel paintings are
the Madonna in Glory (1510, Municipal Museum, Barbiano) and Christ Carrying
the Cross (1513, Borromeo Collection, Milan).
"Pinturicchio," Microsoft (R) Encarta. Copyright (c) 1994
Microsoft Corporation. Copyright (c) 1994 Funk & Wagnall's Corporation.
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