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Pietro Perugino

living 1469; died 1523

Portrait of a Young Man

probably 1550-5

Master of the Pala Sforzesca

Saint John the Baptist in the Desert

The Virgin and Child

Lorenzo di Credi

Giovanni Cristoforo Longoni

The Virgin and Child

Marco d'Oggiono

probably about 1520

Aerial perspective

Leonardo da Vinci, among others, observed that as a landscape recedes from the viewer its colours and tones alter due to the nature of the atmosphere. The pictorial equivalent of this phenomenon is called aerial or atmospheric perspective. This ef...

The Virgin and Child with Four Saints and Twelve Devotees

Master of the Pala Sforzesca

probably about 1490-5

This is an Italian term which literally means 'light-dark'. In paintings the description refers to clear tonal contrasts which are often used to suggest the volume and modelling of the subjects depicted. Artists who are famed for the use of chiar...