Pietro Perugino became an art student at the age of 10, in 1460, studying at the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio alongside Leonardo da Vinci. Perugino went to Rome and painted in the Sistine Chapel, but his works were destroyed to make room for Michelangelo's Last Judgment. Living and working in Florence until 1499, he worked for much of that time on the 15-panel altarpiece for St. Pietro of Perugia. The panels were confiscated by the French in 1797 and now are in the galleries of several French cities.