And Pope Alexander VI had the painter Pinturicchio disguise his mistress as the Virgin Mary in one fresco.
With Anderson to the Vatican, to see the Pinturicchio frescoes, which are very interesting.
The picture seems much more likely to be the work of Pinturicchio, and, in any case, I cannot personally attribute it to Perugino.
Vasari states and subsequent writers have repeated that Pinturicchio was assisted in these frescoes by Raphael.
Vasari, who did not like Pinturicchio, describes him as somewhat of a hack, and still more of a lover of money.
The frescoes of the vault of the tribune are by Pinturicchio.
