The Baptism of Christ
c. 1481-1482 Sistine Chapel, Vatican City
About this artwork
This fresco depicts the Baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist and is part of the fresco cycle on the walls of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, painted during the pontificate of Pope Sixtus IV.
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Pietro Perugino was a prominent artist of the Umbrian School and a key figure in the early Italian Renaissance, whose graceful style deeply influenced his famed pupil, Raphael. This fresco in the Sistine Chapel is one of Perugino's masterpieces, part of a grand narrative cycle that predates Michelangelo's ceiling and illustrates the profound spiritual and artistic ambitions of the papal court.
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The Baptism of Christ
Pietro Perugino, c. 1481-1482
