Pietro Montanini (1619–1689)

• Also called Petruccio Perugino, was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
• He was born in Perugia.
• First apprenticed with the painter Ciro Ferri, then Salvator Rosa.
• Among his pupils in Perugia were Mattia Battini (born 1666), and Giuseppe Laudati (born 1672).
• His canvas of St Francis Xavier was painted for the Capella Decemvirale in Perugia.
• His nephew, Giovanni Fonticelli, was also a painter.

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