Pietro Perugino: Master of the Italian Renaissance

Grand Rapids, Michigan: The Grand Rapids Art Museum, 1997. Paperback. As New. Color illus. wraps; 317 pp.; 54 color, 112 bw plates. Accompanied the exhibition of the same name, held at the Grand Rapids Art Museum in 1997 and 1998; Includes seven essays by various authors; Well illustrated. Contents as follows: Pietro Perugino of Perugia : from "Pietro, the painter of Città della Pieve" (M. Petri pictoris de Castro Plebis) to "Pietro Perugino" (Petrus Perusinus) / Vittoria Garibaldi -- What was a Renaissance artist? / Bruce Cole -- The social history of Perugia in the time of Perugino / James R. Banker -- Defining a type : Perugino's depictions of the Virgin Mary / Katherine R. Smith Abbott -- The role of drawings and compositional arrangements in Perugino's work / Rosaria Mencarelli -- Giorgio Vasari, Pietro Perugino, and the history of Renaissance art / Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella -- Perugino in America : masterpieces, myths, and mistaken identities ; Catalogue of the exhibition / Joseph Antenucci Becherer -- Pietro Perugino : an annotated chronicle / Marilyn Bradshaw -- List of works by Perugino cited in this catalogue ; Index of people and places / compiled by Jody Shiffman.