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Pinturicchio: Fresco on the Life of Pope Pius II (detail)
Source: Wikimedia Commons (see "image archives" below)
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Pinturicchio Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist, 1488-95
Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK
Kress Foundation Collection
(Look for the "Image" links for super high resolution scans)
Madonna Adoring the Child, ca.1490-95
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Vatican Museums, Vatican City
Crowning of the Virgin
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
7 works by or related to the artist
Drawings from the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia, Spain (in Spanish)
Virgen de las Fiebres
Museo del Duomo, Città di Castello, Italy (in Italian)
Madonna and Child with Saint John
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)
Madonna delle Febbri e Don Francesco Borgia, ca.1497
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)
Madonna col Bambino e san Giovannino
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Pinturicchio at The Art Renewal Center
Pinturicchio in the Web Gallery of Art 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
1200 Years of Italian Sculpture (mostly in Italian)
Pintoricchio's Frescoes in the Library of the Cathedral in Siena
Aiwaz Panopticon
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database
Pinturicchio at CGFA 
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Mistica info (in Italian)
Sant'Agostino e San Nicola (detail)
The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Pinturicchio 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists
Biography of the artist. Detailed, but Vasari's anecdotes are sometimes inaccurate.
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