The World Tour of a Panels’ Exhibition on “Il Perugino”

Launch event at UCD SLCL

16th November 2023, 5pm
D301, Newman Building

Introductory remarks by Siofra Pierse, Head of SLCL, Marco Bellardi, Head of Italian, and Marco Gioacchini, Director of the Italian Institute of Culture in Dublin. Introductory talk 'Perugino Master Painter' by Jessica Fahy, freelance Art Historian. The talk is followed by a wine reception for all attendees. 

All welcome!

About the speaker

Jessica Fahy is a freelance Art Historian, she is on the lecturer panels for the National Gallery of Ireland, UCD Access and Lifelong Learning Centre and the Hugh Lane Gallery. She gives talks and tours across Ireland, abroad and online on all areas of Western Art from the 14th century to the present day. Over the three years she has become a regular contributor on RTÉ radio for Arena and The Claire Byrne Show. She has a MLitt in Art History from UCD where she also received her undergraduate degree with English as her joint major. She completed her MA in Italian Renaissance Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London in 2007.

About the exhibition

An exhibition of panels dedicated to the Renaissance painter “Il Perugino” is touring the world on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the artist’s death. 

The exhibition illustrates the life and places of Pietro Vannucci, known as “Il Perugino”, highlighting the various stages of his work. One of the most famous and influential painters of his time, he was very active especially in Perugia, Florence, and Rome. Most of his works can be found in Umbria, Tuscany, and the Marches. He died during a plague pandemic in 1523 in Fontignano, near Perugia.

The project of an exhibition on "Il Perugino" is directed primarily at a non-specialist public and aims to give greater visibility and to promote better knowledge abroad of a great master of the Italian Renaissance. The exhibition has been curated by Ambassador Stefano Baldi, currently Permanent Representative of Italy to the OSCE in Vienna.

Italian Embassies, Consulates and Cultural Institutes are promoting the exhibition which has already been shown in Armenia, Ireland, South Africa, Luxembourg and North Macedonia. In the coming months it will be displayed in many more countries including Tanzania, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Canada, Greece, Lithuania, Turkey, Indonesia, Chile, DR Congo, Switzerland, Bosnia Herzegovina, the Republic of Moldova and Paraguay, where it will be displayed in universities or other public spaces related to Italian art and language.

The panels, originally in Italian and English, have been translated into French, Spanish, German, Swahili, Albanian, and Macedonian, while the Greek, Turkish, and Lithuanian versions are being finalized.

All information on the various exhibitions is available on a dedicated website at (opens in a new window)https://perugino500.wordpress.com