Perino del Vaga (1501-1547)

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  PIETRO BUONACCORSI, CALLED PERINO DEL VAGA

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  PIETRO BUONACCORSI, CALLED PERINO DEL VAGA

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  Pietro Buonaccorsi, called Perino del Vaga , Florence 1501 - 1547 Rome recto : camillus and brennus; verso : studies for three figures Pen and brown ink ( recto and verso )

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  Circle of Pietro Buonaccorsi, Perino del Vaga (Florence 1501-1547 Rome)

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Perino del Vaga Biography

(b Florence, 1501; d Rome, 20 Oct 1547). Italian painter and draughtsman. He trained in Florence, first with Andrea de’ Ceri and from the age of 11 with Ridolfo Ghirlandaio. According to Vasari, he practised drawing by copying Michelangelo’s cartoon for the Battle of Cascina (destr.). For Pope Leo X’s entry into Florence in November 1515 he painted an allegorical figure on one of the twelve triumphal arches. Soon after, an obscure Florentine painter called Vaga took Perino to Rome, where he became known as del Vaga. There he continued his drawing studies, copying from works of antiquity and Michelangelo’s ceiling in the Sistine Chapel. On the recommendation of Giulio Romano and Giovanni Francesco Penni, he joined Raphael’s workshop, where he learnt stuccowork and how to design grotesques, through assisting Giovanni da Udine in the Vatican Logge. Soon he was painting scenes from Raphael‘s designs, and five or six ceiling frescoes in the Logge, including the Story of Joshua and the Story of David , are generally accepted as his. Vasari drew particular attention to scenes under the windows that are painted to look like bronze reliefs (badly damaged). Pictures of this kind became a speciality of Perino’s. Before the death of Leo X in 1521, he worked with Giovanni da Udine again, on the ceiling frescoes in the Sala dei Pontefici at the Vatican.

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