The ''Madonna in Glory with Saints'' is a painting by the

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painter

Pietro Perugino Pietro Perugino (, ; – 1523), born Pietro Vannucci, was an Italian Renaissance Painting, painter of the Umbrian school, who developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance. Raphael was his most famous pup ...

, dating to c. 1500–1501. It is housed in the Pinacoteca Nazionale of

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. It was originally located in the Scarani Chapel of the church of

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Description

The scheme of the composition, typical of Perugino's mature works (based on the lost ''Assumption'' of the

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and used in numerous works of the period, such as the ''

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'' and the Vallombrosa Altarpiece), includes two different levels. The Madonna with Child, depicted within an almond in the upper part; and a group of four saints above a hilly landscape in the lower one. The saints are, from the left: the Archangel Michael (with a decorated armor), Catherine of Alexandria (with her traditional attributed of the torture wheel), Apollonia (with the

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of her martyrdom) and John the Evangelist, who has the

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eagle). Perugino's signature (''PETRUS PERUSINUS PINXIT'') can be seen on Catherine's wheel.

Sources

* {{Pietro Perugino 1500s paintings Paintings of the Madonna and Child by Pietro Perugino Paintings in the collection of the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna

Perugino Pietro Perugino (, ; – 1523), born Pietro Vannucci, was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school, who developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance. Raphael was his most famous pupil. Ear ...