Sant'Agostino Altarpiece tondi of David and Daniel, but was later split up. Apart from these two purely decorative tempera tondi, the rest of the panels show a lack of underdrawing and near-transparent colour to show the contours of the figures - the speed of their execution dates them to Perugino's late period. The rural backgrounds are very simple, with almost no flowers in the foreground to increase focus on the classically-influenced figures, in which Perugino seems to have assimilated the style of his old pupil Raphael. Sant'Agostino Altarpiece The Sant'Agostino Altarpiece is a painting by Perugino, produced in two stages between around
Saint Peter Martyr Altarpiece testimony) also mention a second altarpiece by the artist in the same church, also dating to 1476, now known as the "Saint Peter Martyr Altarpiece"'. It is therefore theorised that the altarpieces were both dismantled during rebuilding of the church in 1776, then sold to the antiquarian Grossi who sold all the panels separately and grouped some of them into the altarpiece that Cardinal Zelada bought from him. Federico Zeri and Rodolfo Pallucchini then joined the altarpieces together, initially referring to the first (the high altarpiece), the "Pietà" in the Metropolitan Museum, and then to the "Madonna" in the Museum