Perugino’s Christ Handing the Keys to Saint Peter

Perhaps the most famous painting in the Sistine Chapel before Michelangelo’s time was one by fresco by Pietro Perugino called “Christ Handing the Keys of the Kingdom to Saint Peter”.  Perugino carried on what Masaccio and others had been doing before, but he was able to place his painted forms …

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