He descends from a family of artists who moved to Milan in 1587. The first documentary record of his work is the payment for a sculptural work in the cathedral of Milan in 1590. His first dated painti [+]
Pietro Buonaccorsi, called Perino del Vaga was, from age eleven, a pupil of Ridolfo Ghirlandaio (1483-1561); and later he was taken as a youth to Rome by an elusive painter, "il Vaga," whence the form [+]