Pietro Perugino: Master of the Italian Renaissance

Grand Rapids, Michigan/New York: The Grand Rapids Art Museum/Rizzoli, 1997. Paperback. VG+/VG+. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt lettering on front cover and spine, color illustrated dust jacket, xxi, 317 pp, richly illustrated in color and bw. 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.