Until near the middle of the 15th century the Umbrian school was far behind those of Florence and the North, but in the person of Perugino and some of his followers it suddenly advanced to the very first rank.
Among the latter Benedetto Bonfigli holds a distinguished place. The most important of his extant works are a series, in fresco, of the life of St Louis of Toulouse, in the Palazzo Comunale (town hall) of Perugia; a gonfalon by him is prized for its contempaneous view of Perugia.
His father was one Benedetto or Benedecto, and he was christened Bernardino Benedetto (afterwards shortened to Betto or Betti).
A document of 1502 exists at Siena, in which Pintoricchio is styled the son of Benedetto di Biagio, so that we thus learn the bare names of his father and grandfather.
There is sufficient suggestion of BenedettoBonfigli in some of his work, to make it probable that he joined the school which Bonfigli had established in Perugia in the early part of the fifteenth century.
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