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Also Known As Bernardino di Betto di Biago
Born c.1454 • Perugia • Italy
Died December 11, 1513 • Siena • Italy
Movement / Style Early Renaissance • Renaissance

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Detail of The Dispute of St. Catherine, fresco by Pinturicchio, 1492–94; in the Borgia Apartment of the Vatican.
Alexander VI
St. Ambrose, detail of a fresco by Pinturicchio, 1480s; in Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome.
Saint John the Baptist, fresco by Pinturicchio, 1504-05; in the chapel of St. John Baptist, the cathedral of Siena, Italy
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Venus of Urbino by Titian
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Arrival of Cardinal Francesco Gonzaga, fresco by Andrea Mantegna, completed 1474; in the Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, Italy.
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Fra Angelico: Madonna of Humility
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Italian painter
Sandro Botticelli: Birth of Venus
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Piero della Francesca: The Flagellation of Christ
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Italian painter
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The Birth of the Virgin, fresco by Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1486–90; in the choir of Santa Maria Novella, Florence.
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Fra Filippo Lippi: Madonna and Child
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Correggio: Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist
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Lippi, Filippino: The Meeting of Joachim and Anne Outside the Golden Gate of Jerusalem
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“Decapitation of St. George,” fresco by Altichiero, c. 1384; in the Cappella di S. Giorgio, Padua, Italy
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