The Popes Anterus and Fabian – Sistine Chapel – Vatican City
The two frescos are part of the twenty-eight popes painted in false niches; among these Popes, Anterus and Fabian were probably realized by Perugino, for
The two frescos are part of the twenty-eight popes painted in false niches; among these Popes, Anterus and Fabian were probably realized by Perugino, for
Perugino certainly realized the composition and the preparatory drawings of the two main figures, Jesus and John the Baptist, and of some of the characters
The large fresco was entirely executed by Pietro Vannucci in 1483; among the whole cycle, this is the scene that best conveys the complex ideological
The Polyptych of Saint Augustine is a large complex of tables (dismembered and partially lost) realized by Perugino and his assistants in two phases (1502-1512
In 1483 the Benedictine community of monks of the congregation of Santa Giustina da Padova commissioned to the Olivetan friar Giovanni da Verona to realize
