Perugino was the greatest painter of his time. Raphael had grown up in the workshop of his father Giovanni Santi, in Urbino court’s milieu, and in contact with the sophisticated theories of Luca Pacioli and Piero della Francesca’s masterpieces. He became Perugino’s pupil when, at only 11 years old, was already showing to be an independent artist. In a short period of time and space, between Perugia and Montefeltro, from sublime artistic circumstances, the genius of Raphael – who would affect artists for centuries to come – emerged