The Early Renaissance


   

Bernardino Pinturicchio

(b Perugia, c. 1452; d Siena, 11 Dec 1513). Italian painter. He collaborated with Perugino in 1481–2 in the Sistine Chapel, Rome, and quickly established his reputation as a painter of distinctive and picturesque decorative cycles. His most important commissions included the decoration (1492–4) of the Borgia Apartments in the Vatican Palace, Rome, for Pope Alexander VI and the large fresco cycle (1502–1507/8) in the library of Siena Cathedral, depicting the Life of Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, for Cardinal Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini (later Pope Pius III).

 

Aeneas Piccolomini Crowned as Pope
1502-08
Fresco
Piccolomini Library, Duomo, Siena
 

Aeneas Piccolomini Introduces Eleonora of Portugal to Frederick III
1502-08
Fresco
Piccolomini Library, Duomo, Siena