The wall paintings of the Sistine Chapel are among the most important examples of the type of painting developed in Florence in the later fifteenth century. The five artists brought to Rome to execute them came from various different art centres: Botticelli, Ghirlandaio and Rosselli from Florence, Perugino from Umbria, Signorelli from Cortona. Perugino's contribution was the largest, with the altar wall paintings and three additional pictures. Recent scholars have concluded that it was he who was in charge of the whole project and who produced the overall design. It is true that in the Christ Handing the Keys to St Peter his portraits appears next to those of the architect and builder. Perugino was also the only artist to leave his signature in the chapel, above the baptism scene in the first compartment on the north wall.

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	View of the left wall 1481-82 Fresco Cappella Sistina, Vatican
	Baptism of Christ c. 1482 Fresco, 335 x 540 cm Cappella Sistina, Vatican
	Baptism of Christ (detail) c. 1482 Fresco Cappella Sistina, Vatican
	Baptism of Christ (detail) c. 1482 Fresco Cappella Sistina, Vatican
	Baptism of Christ (detail) c. 1482 Fresco Cappella Sistina, Vatican
	Moses's Journey into Egypt and the Circumcision of His Son Eliezer c. 1482 Fresco, 350 x 572 cm Cappella Sistina, Vatican
	Moses's Journey into Egypt and the Circumcision of His Son Eliezer (detail) c. 1482 Fresco Cappella Sistina, Vatican
	Moses's Journey into Egypt and the Circumcision of His Son Eliezer (detail) c. 1482 Fresco Cappella Sistina, Vatican
	Moses's Journey into Egypt and the Circumcision of His Son Eliezer (detail) c. 1482 Fresco Cappella Sistina, Vatican
	Moses's Journey into Egypt and the Circumcision of His Son Eliezer (detail) c. 1482 Fresco Cappella Sistina, Vatican
	Moses's Journey into Egypt and the Circumcision of His Son Eliezer (detail) c. 1482 Fresco Cappella Sistina, Vatican
	Scenes on the left wall 1481-82 Fresco Cappella Sistina, Vatican
	Christ Handing the Keys to St Peter 1481-82 Fresco, 335 x 550 cm Cappella Sistina, Vatican
	Christ Handing the Keys to St Peter 1481-82 Fresco, 335 x 550 cm Cappella Sistina, Vatican
	Christ Handing the Keys to St Peter (detail) 1481-82 Fresco Cappella Sistina, Vatican
	Christ Handing the Keys to St Peter (detail) 1481-82 Fresco Cappella Sistina, Vatican
	Christ Handing the Keys to St Peter (detail) 1481-82 Fresco Cappella Sistina, Vatican
	Christ Handing the Keys to St Peter (detail) 1481-82 Fresco Cappella Sistina, Vatican
	Christ Handing the Keys to St Peter (detail) 1481-82 Fresco Cappella Sistina, Vatican
	Christ Handing the Keys to St Peter (detail) 1481-82 Fresco Cappella Sistina, Vatican
	Christ Handing the Keys to St Peter (detail) 1481-82 Fresco Cappella Sistina, Vatican
	Assumption of Mary c. 1481 Metalpoint, pen, wash, with white heightening, 272 x 210 mm Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna