Pietro Perugino

Pietro Vannucci was born somewhere between 1446 and 1452, an Umbrian who would take his name from the region. He developed a style that bridged the gap: qualities that would later crystallize into the High Renaissance, but hadn't quite arrived there yet. His most famous pupil was Raphael, which guaranteed him a footnote in history and also guaranteed that footnote would be the first thing anyone said about him. He worked through 1523, long enough to see what his student became.