Perino del Vaga (1501–1547)

Italian painter. A pupil and assistant of Raphael Sanzio in Rome, he carried out decorations in the Logge of the Vatican from Raphael's designs. What might be called his trademark were his frescoes painted so as to simulate bronze reliefs. Late in his career (afrer a decade spent mainly in Genoa working for Andrea Doria), he produced a group of these to supplement Raphael's frescoes in the Vatican Stanze della Segnatura; from this commission followed his last major work, the decoration of Paul III's suite in the Castel Sant' Angelo.

He painted frescoes in the Vatican Borgia Apartments and Palazzo Doria, Genoa. His altarpieces include the Pala Basadonne (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC). His influential late style is exemplified in frescoes in the Castel Sant' Angelo, Rome.