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THE UMBRIAN SCHOOL.
PIETRO PERUGTNO.
Born 1446, died 1524.
The fame of Perugino rests more on his having-
been the master and instructor of Raphael, than on
his own works or worth. Yet he was a great and
remarkable man in his own day: interesting in
ours as the representative of a certain school of art
immediately preceding that of Raphael. Francesco
Francia has left behind him a name perhaps less
known and celebrated, but far more revered.
The territory of Umbria in Italy comprises that
mountainous region of the Ecclesiastical States
now called the Duchy of Spoleto. Perugia, Fo-
ligno, Assisi, and Spoleto were among its principal
towns ; and the whole country, with its retired
valleys and isolated cities, was distinguished in the
middle ages as the peculiar seat of religious en-
thusiasm. It was here that St. Francis of Assisi
preached and prayed, and gathered around him his
fervid self-denying votaries. Art, as usual, re-
THE UMBRIAN SCHOOL.
PIETRO PERUGTNO.
Born 1446, died 1524.
The fame of Perugino rests more on his having-
been the master and instructor of Raphael, than on
his own works or worth. Yet he was a great and
remarkable man in his own day: interesting in
ours as the representative of a certain school of art
immediately preceding that of Raphael. Francesco
Francia has left behind him a name perhaps less
known and celebrated, but far more revered.
The territory of Umbria in Italy comprises that
mountainous region of the Ecclesiastical States
now called the Duchy of Spoleto. Perugia, Fo-
ligno, Assisi, and Spoleto were among its principal
towns ; and the whole country, with its retired
valleys and isolated cities, was distinguished in the
middle ages as the peculiar seat of religious en-
thusiasm. It was here that St. Francis of Assisi
preached and prayed, and gathered around him his
fervid self-denying votaries. Art, as usual, re-