pietro perugino

Perugino is known as a major influence of Renaissance painters throughout Europe as both a painter and a teacher. According to my friend J. Antenucchi Becherer's excellent volume Pietro Perugino, Master of the Italian Renaissance, the painter gained a formal notoriety in his early thirties when the pope commissioned him to organize the decoration of the walls of the newly built Sistine Chapel.

Saint Gerome (341-420 AD), a scholar and monk, is best known for translating the Hebrew Bible and Greek New Testament into Latin. (Thanks, man!) Here he is, kneeling in the desert, blood trickling from his chest, a stone in his right hand—a depiction based on a letter he wrote in which he describes flailing himself in order to quell sexual hallucinations.

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