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| | Pietro Perugino - Biography and Gallery of Art |
 | | Pietro could not know thisbecause oil-colouring was then in its infancy.As Pietro's works were much praised by the Florentines, aprior of the same convent of the Jesuits, who was fond of art,employed him to do a Nativity, with the Magi, in the minutestyle, on a wall of the first cloister. |
 | | Pietro, unable to brook such an insult, brought hisrival before the Eight, but made a sorry exhibition.Meanwhile the Servite friars at Florence, who wished thepicture of their high altar to be by some famous master, hadentrusted the work to Filippino, since Lionardo da Vinci haddeparted for France. |
 | | Pietro was not a religious man, and would never believe ii, theimmortality of the soul, obstinately refusing to listen to all goodreasons. |
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