Pietro Perugino, “Christ Handing the Keys of the Kingdom to Saint Peter”,1481-83
Before Michelangelo's time, Perugino's painting was one of the most famous in the Sistine Chapel. Carrying on what Masaccio and others had been doing, Perugino was able to portray space in a new way. This paining is an Italian Renaissance painting that was part of a large decorative program ordered by Pope Sixtus IV in 1481 for the walls of the Sistine Chapel. It was then and still is today the pope's private chapel in the Vatican in Rome. The painting is two dimensional however it gives an appearance of having three dimensions.
The element of lines is the most eye catching, giving us another perspective. The painting takes place on what seems as a grid and these vanishing lines go all the way into the horizon meeting the mountains in the background. Right in front and what appears to be bigger than everyone else in the painting is Jesus Christ handing the keys to St. Peter, depicting apostolic succession. The key in the painting isn't coincidentally placed wherever, it is placed in the middle along the lines of the vanishing point which is an enormous biblical scene especially for the pope.
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