Pinturicchio

Timeline

1. c. 1470–1482Perugia · PerugiaTrained in the Umbrian school in Perugia, Vasari records him as Perugino's salaried assistant. In 1481 he went with Perugino to Rome for the Sistine Chapel frescoes, working alongside Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, and Signorelli, and painting the later-destroyed Assumption of the Virgin on the altarpiece wall, thereby entering major papal decorative projects.
2. 1484–1492Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome · RomeFrom about 1484–1492 he decorated the chapels of Santa Maria del Popolo for the Della Rovere cardinal family, including frescoes of the Adoration of the Shepherds, the Assumption of the Virgin, and the Latin Doctors, absorbing grotesque motifs in the style of the Domus Aurea. Around the same time, c. 1484–1486, he painted miracles of Saint Bernardino in the Bufalini Chapel of Santa Maria in Aracoeli, establishing his position as a decorative painter in Rome.
3. 1492–1513Borgia Apartments, Apostolic Palace, Vatican · Vatican CityIn 1492 Alexander VI summoned him to decorate six newly completed suites, now known as the Borgia Apartments; five still retain frescoes by him and his assistants, and he worked there until about 1494. He then continued at the Cappella Baglioni in Spello and the high altar of Santa Maria dei Fossi in Perugia, completing the cycle on the life of Pius II in the Piccolomini Library of Siena Cathedral in 1502–1507, and dying in Siena in 1513.