Marriage of the virgin pietro perugino biography

The Marriage of the Virgin is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Perugino.

It is housed in the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Caen, France. Initially commissioned to Pinturicchio for the recently completed cathedral of Perugia, Perugino took over the commission and finished the work around , probably after several periods of stasis.

Perugino painted his Marriage of the Virgin for a chapel in the cathedral in Perugia, which was completed in , and in which the Virgin's engagement ring was kept. This valuable relic had been stolen from a church in Chiusi in and had only recently been retrieved, so it is not surprising that it takes pride of place in the centre of this picture.
The painting prominently displays the Virgin's engagement ring, which was then kept at the cathedral as a holy relic.
Later, in , the picture was confiscated by Napoleon and was subsequently