According to biographer Giorgio Vasari, Girolamo Genga studied with Luca Signorelli at age fifteen, then became his assistant. Between 1498 and 1501, he worked in a studio in Perugia, where fellow student Raphael influenced him strongly. Genga worked throughout Italy, primarily as a painter and architect in Urbino, though he also found employment in Tuscany and Lombardy. In 1522 the duke of Urbino
