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Maestro di San Francesco (died after ca. 1280)

Active mainly in Assisi

Two works that are attributed to the Maestro di San Francesco are from San Francesco al Prato:

  1. a Crucifix (1272) in the Galleria Nazionale; and

  2. a polyptych (ca. 1272), the panels of which are now dispersed,  although some are in the Galleria Nazionale.






Maestro della Croce di Gubbio (ca. 1300) 

Probably from Gubbio

This artist is named for a Crucifix (ca. 1300) in the Pinacoteca, Gubbio.  A double-sided processional crucifix (ca. 1300) in the Galleria Nazionale is also attributed to him.








Duccio di Buoninsegna (ca. 1255-1319)

From Siena

This panel (early 14th century) in the Galleria Nazionale is attributed to Duccio di Buoninsegna.  It probably came from a polyptych that was painted for the for the high altar of the new church of San Domenico.








Meo di Guido da Siena (14th century)

From Siena, based in Perugia from ca. 1319

Meo di Guido da Siena signed the Montelabate Polyptych (ca. 1315) from the Abbazia di Santa Maria di Valdiponte, the central panel of which is illustrated here.  It is now in the Galleria Nazionale, along with two panels of the Madonna and Child that are attributed to him.  Other works from Perugia that are attributed to him include:

  1. a triptych (ca. 1315) from San Domenico Vecchio that is now in the Museo Capitolare; and

  2. a double-sided altarpiece (1330) from the high altar of San Pietro, which is now the Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt.




Giovanni di Bonino (died after 1345)

From Assisi

All of the surviving documents relating to “Maestro Giovanni di Bonino di Assisi” relate to work carried out in the Duomo of Orvieto.  A stained glass window from Sant’ Agostino, Perugia, which is now in the Galleria Nazionale, is attributed to him.









Puccio Capanna (died after 1350)

From Assisi

Puccio Capanna probably trained in Giotto’s workshop at San Francesco, Assisi.   This small painting on parchment (ca. 1340) in the Galleria Nazionale is attributed to him.  Its main scenes depict:

  1. the Madonna and Child enthroned, with angels (on the left) and

  2. the Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John the Evangelist (on the right).



Mello da Gubbio (died ca. 1360) 

From Gubbio

The signature “Opus Melli de Eugubio” was discovered in 1979 on a panel (14th century) in the Museo Diocesano, Gubbio that came from the Pieve d’ Agnano.  These three panels (14th century) from a polyptych in the Galleria Nazionale are attributed to him.






Allegretto Nuzi (died ca. 1374)

From Fabriano

Allegretto di Nuzi was documented in Florence in 1346, and this document suggests that he had previously worked in Siena.  He seems to have returned to the Marches in ca. 1348 and to have spent the rest of his career there.  Frescoes in two Perugian churches are attributed to him:

  1. frescoes (14th century) of the Evangelists in the Cappella di San Nicolò of San Domenico, including this one of St John; and 

  2. a fresco (14th century) of the Dormition of the Virgin in the Cappella dei Consoli of  Sant’ Agostino.




Pietro di Puccio (died after 1394)

From Orvieto

A fresco fragment  (1398) of SS John the Evangelist and Bartholomew in the Cappella dell' Incoronazione in  Sant’ Agostino, which is dated by inscription, is variously attributed to Pietro di Puccio or Cola Petruccioli (below).







Cola Petruccioli (died 1401)

From Orvieto, moved to Perugia in ca. 1380

Works in Perugia that are attributed to Cola Petruccioli include:

  1. a number of frescoes in San Domenico, including this self-portrait; and

  2. the frescoes (ca. 1390 ?) from Palazzo Stocchi-Isidori, most of which are now in the Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest.

A fresco fragment  (1398) of SS John the Evangelist and Bartholomew in the Cappella dell' Incoronazione in  Sant’ Agostino, which is dated by inscription, is variously attributed to Pietro di Puccio (above) or Cola Petruccioli. 



Maestro della Dormitio di Terni (ca. 1400)

Probably from Terni

A panel of the Madonna and Child enthroned with angels in the Galleria Nazionale , which is of unknown provenance, is attributed to the Maestro della Dormitio di Terni.  It was probably originally part of a triptych.  









Benedetto di Bindo (died 1417)

From Castiglione di Valdorcia, near Siena, based in Perugia 1415-7

Benedetto di Bindo established his career in Siena before moving to Perugia in ca. 1415.  He was paid for cartoons for the stained glass in the sacristy of San Domenico in 1415: this window no longer survives.  He died prematurely in Perugia and was buried in the cloister of San Domenico.  The frescoes (ca. 1415) of the Cappella di Santa Caterina, San Domenico (including this detail of St Catherine of Alexandria) are attributed to him. 




Taddeo di Bartolo (died 1422)

From Siena

Taddeo di Bartolo, who worked mostly in Tuscany, was also recorded in Perugia in 1403.  His most important commission here was a signed polyptych for the high altar of San Francesco al Prato.  Most of its panels, including this one depicting St Francis, are in the Galleria Nazionale.










Gentile da Fabriano (died 1427)

From Fabriano

Gentile da Fabriano was one of the most important artists of his generation and an exponent of the International Gothic.  This panel (ca. 1405) of the Madonna and Child from San Domenico, which is now in the Galleria Nazionale, is attributed to him.








Lorenzo and Jacopo Salimbeni (early 15th century)

From San Severino

The signed works of Lorenzo Salimbeni were executed in the period 1400-16 in the area around his native city.  Two of these were signed additionally by his younger brother, Jacopo, but no securely documented work by Jacopo alone is known.   This monochrome fresco (early 15th century) of the Crucifixion with the Virgin and SS John the Evangelist and Mary Magdalene from San Benedetto dei Condotti, which is now the Galleria Nazionale, is attributed to Lorenzo or, alternatively, to Jacopo Salimbeni.



Pellegrino di Giovanni (died 1437)

From Perugia

Pellegrino di Giovanni is documented in Perugia from 1408.  His only securely attributed work is this signed panel (1428) from San Domenico, which is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.  This reveals him to have been a close follower of Gentile da Fabriano (above).








Lello da Velletri (died after 1437)

Presumably from Velletri, Lazio


The only securely attributed work by Lello da Velletri is a signed polyptych (ca. 1421) from  Santa Maria Novella (later San Benedetto dei Condotti) that is now in the Galleria Nazionale (illustrated above).  The style of this painting reveals Lello to have been a follower of Gentile da Fabriano (above).


Ottaviano Nelli (1375 - ca. 1450)

From Gubbio



The Pietralunga Polyptych (1403), which is signed by Ottaviano Nelli and which came from the church of Sant' Agostino, Pietralunga, is now in the Galleria Nazionale (illustrated here).  A fresco (15th century) of a vision of St Brigid of Sweden in San Benedetto dei Condotti is attributed to him.


Bicci di Lorenzo (died 1452)

From Florence

The so-called Sant’ Agnese Triptych   (1430s), which is attributed to Bicci di Lorenzo, came from the nunnery of Sant' Agnese and was probably commissioned shortly after 1429, when Sant' Agnese passed to a community of Franciscan tertiaries.  It is now in the Galleria Nazionale.






Fra Angelico (1387–1455)

From Florence

The main panels of the important Guidalotti Polyptych (ca. 1447) from San Domenico are now in the Galleria Nazionale.  It has been attributed to Fra Angelico since it was first documented in 1548.  The main panel, which is illustrated here, depicts the Madonna and Child enthroned with angels.








Mariano di Antonio (died 1468) 

From Perugia

Six small panels (ca. 1455) from San Francesco al Prato that are now in the Galleria Nazionale probably came from a documented altarpiece in the church.  Four of them (including the one illustrated here), which depict miracles of St Antony of Padua, probably came from the predella, while the other two probably came from the pilasters of the frame.  Other works attributed to this artist are also in the gallery. 






Filippo Lippi (1406-69)

From Florence

Giorgio Vasari saw an altarpiece of the Madonna and Child with SS Peter, Paul, Louis and Antony Abbot by Filippo Lippi on the high altar of San Domenico Vecchio in the 16th century, but this has since been lost.  If Vasari's attribution is correct, Lippi probably painted it in the period 1467-9, immediately before his death, while he was also working on the frescoes in the apse of the Duomo, Spoleto.  (The self-portrait illustrated here comes from this fresco cycle in Spoleto).





Workshop of 1473

Group of artists based in Perugia

This is the name given to a group of artists who are believed to have contributed to eight panels of Miracles of St Bernardino in the Galleria Nazionale that probably came from San Francesco al Prato.  One of the panels (illustrated here) is inscribed with the date 1473.  According to recent scholarship, Bartolomeo Caporali probably led the team, which is thought to have included: Sante di Apollonio; the young Pintoricchio; Fiorenzo di Lorenzo; and possibly Perugino.





Pietro di Galeotto (died 1483)

From Perugia

Pietro di Galeotto was documented as a pupil of Piero della Francesca in 1473.  He joined the Painters’ Guild of Perugia in 1479, the year in which he received the prestigious  commission to paint the Pala dei Decemviri for the chapel of the Palazzo dei Priori.  This commission was cut short by his premature death in 1483.  His only securely attributed surviving work is the Flagellation of Christ (1480), illustrated here, a processional banner that now forms the altarpiece on the altar in the sacristy of the Oratorio di San Francesco.



Sante di Apollonio del Celandro (died 1486)

From Perugia


Little is known about this artist, except that:

  1. he painted the Triptych of Justice (1475-6, illustrated here) with Bartolomeo Caporali (below); and

  2. he was commissioned to paint the prestigious Decemviri Altarpiece in 1485 but died in the following year, at which point only the upper panel was complete.  This panel was subsequently over-painted. 


Giovanni Boccati (died after 1486)

From Camerino, moved to Perugia

Giovanni di Pier Matteo Boccati became a citizen of Perugia in 1445.  His three surviving works in Perugia are all in the Galleria Nazionale:

  1. the Madonna della Pergolata (1446-7) from the Oratorio di San Domenico;

  2. the Madonna dell’ Orchestra (ca. 1450) from San Simone del Carmine (illustrated here); and

  3. the damaged Gonfalone della Pietà (1479), of unknown provenance.




Neri di Monte (died after 1488)

From Perugia

Panels (ca. 1484) from stained glass windows of the Cappella di Sant‘ Onofrio in the Duomo , which are attributed to Neri di Monte, were sold to the friars of San Francesco, Assisi in 1765 and are now in the Museo del Tesoro di San Francesco.  Other documented stain glass in Palazzo dei Priori and in the nunnery of Sant’ Antonio da Padova has been lost.

[Temporary link to Neri di Monte]


Pietro di Nicola Baroni (died after 1489)

From Orvieto

Pietro di Nicola Baroni was one of the most prolific painters in Orvieto in the 15th century.  The earliest documentary record of him is however in Perugia, in 1436-9.  A documented Pietà (1436) for the Confraternita di Sant’ Agostino does not survive.  He signed a triptych in the nunnery of San Benedetto (now Sant’ Erminio), the panels of which are now in Kiev.  A polyptych in the deposit of Galleria Nazionale, which came from SS Trinità, is attributed to him.

[Temporary link to Pietro di Nicola Baroni]


Piero della Francesca (died 1492)

From Borgo Sansepolcro

This important artist painted the St Antony of Padua Polyptych (ca. 1468)

for the nuns of Sant’ Antonio da Padova.   It is now in the Galleria Nazionale.









Benedetto Bonfigli (died 1496)

From Perugia

According to Giorgio Vasari, Benedetto Bonfigli was the most highly esteemed painter in the region up to the time of Perugino.  His most important works were the frescoes (1454-96) the of the chapel of Palazzo dei Priori (now part of the Galleria Nazionale).  His other numerous works in Perugia included a number of processional banners: this is the Gonfalon di San Francesco al Prato (1464), which is now in the Galleria Nazionale.





Benozzo Gozzoli (1420-97)

From Florence


This altarpiece (1456), which is signed by the Florentine Benozzo Gozzoli and dated, was commissioned for the altar of the Cappella di San Girolamo of the Sapienza Nuova and is now in the Galleria Nazionale.  The main panel depicts the Madonna and Child seated on the ground in a meadow against a gold background with SS Peter, John the Baptist, Jerome and Paul.  The presence of the Guidalotti arms on the predella and of St Elizabeth among the depicted saints suggests that Elisabetta Guidalotti commissioned the altarpiece.   Her brother, Bishop Benedetto Guidalotti had founded the Sapienza Nuova.


Nicolò di Liberatore, l' Alunno (1430-1502)

From Foligno

Nicolò di Liberatore was probably the most important artist in Foligno in the 15th century.  The Confraternita dell’ Annunziata commissioned the Gonfalon dell' Annunziata (1466 - illustrated here) from him for their altar in Santa Maria dei Servi.  It is now in the Galleria Nazionale.  An altarpiece that is attributed to Nicolò di Liberatore and his son, Lattanzio di Nicolò (below), which probably came from San Bartolomeo di Marano, Foligno, now forms part of the Collection of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Perugia.





Bartolomeo Caporali (died after 1505)

From Perugia


The documented works of Bartolomeo Caporali include the Triptych of Justice (1475-6 - illustrated here) with Sante di Apollonio del Celandro (above).  He seems to have had an important workshop and to have worked with other important artists, including Benedetto Bonfigli (above).  He probably led the team known as the Workshop of 1473 (above). 


Matteo da Gualdo (died 1507)

From Gualdo Tadino 

The frescoes (1488) in this aedicule aedicule in the Galleria Nazionale are signed by Matteo da Gualdo and dated by inscription.  The aedicule was detached in 1911 from a house at Colle Aprico, near Nocera Umbra.  Two works in the collection of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Perugia, which are displayed in Palazzo Baldeschi Cennini, are attributed to Matteo da Gualdo.








Antoniazzo Romano (died after 1508)

From Rome

This small devotional panel (15th century) of the Madonna and Child, which was purchased by the Galleria Nazionale, Perugia in 1884, is attributed to Antoniazzo Romano.








Bernardino di Betto, Pintoricchio (ca. 1454–1513)

From Perugia

This important artist seems to have worked mostly outside his native city.  An important exception is the Santa Maria dei Fossi Altarpiece (1496), which is now in the Galleria Nazionale.








Andrea d' Assisi, l’ Ingegno (died 1520)

From Assisi

According to Giorgio Vasari, l’ Ingegno was the main assistant of Perugino (below) in relation to the frescoes (1496-1500) of the Collegio di Cambio.

[Temporary link to Andrea d' Assisi, l’ Ingegno]


Raphael (1483-1520)

From Urbino


Raphael, who was one of the most important painters of the Renaissance, worked mostly in Umbria in 1500-4.  He was probably based in Florence in 1504-8, but was still active in Umbria.  He painted three important altarpieces for Perugian churches and a fourth was completed to his basic design after his death.  None of these remain in the city.  However, his first known fresco (illustrated here) survives in San Severo, albeit that it is damaged and unfinished. 


Fiorenzo di Lorenzo (c. 1440-1522)

From Perugia

Fiorenzo di Lorenzo is well documented in Perugia, where his two securely attributed works survive in the Galleria Nazionale:

  1. a detached fresco (1476)  of the Madonna della Misericordia from the Ospedale di Sant’ Egidio (illustrated here) ; and  

  2. some panels from a documented polyptych (1487-93) from Santa Maria Nuova.

A number of other works in the gallery and elsewhere in Perugia are attributed to him.




Luca Signorelli (died 1523)

From Cortona 

The Sant' Onofrio Altarpiece (1484), which is among the earliest of the surviving works of Luca Signorelli, came from the Duomo and is now in the Museo Capitolare.  A lost inscription recorded that Bishop Dionisio Vannucci had installed it in the Cappella di Sant’ Onofrio in 1484 and that his uncle and predecessor, Bishop Jacopo Vannucci had built the chapel.  The altarpiece depicts the Madonna and Child with SS Humphrey (Onofrio in Italian, dressed as an unkempt hermit), John the Baptist and Laurence and an unidentified bishop.  This last figure is sometime identified as St Herculanus, although this is unlikely since the figure does not have a halo.  Others suggest that it is a portrait of Jacopo Vannucci, although the prominent representation of a donor would have been unusual at this time.


Pietro Vannucci, il Perugino (1446–1524)

From Città della Pieve, based in Perugia

Perugino is probably the most famous and most prolific Perugian artist.  This is his self-portrait, which is among his frescoes (1496-1500) in the Collegio di Cambio.   Most of his other surviving works in Perugia are in the Galleria Nazionale.  Many of his most important paintings in the city were taken to France in 1797, and many of these never returned.




Tiberio d’ Assisi (ca. 1465-1524)

From Assisi

Tiberio d’ Assisi is documented as a painter in Perugia and in Assisi in the 1490s, although no securely attributed work from this period survives.  Two surviving frescoes (ca. 1500) in Perugia are attributed to him:

  1. a fresco in a niche above the altar of Santa Maria della Luce of Madonna and Child enthroned with SS Francis and Louis of Toulouse (illustrated here); and

  2. a fresco of the standing Madonna and Child in Santa Maria di Braccio.




Ludovico d’ Angelo (died after 1525) 

From Perugia

Ludovico d’ Angelo belonged to the so-called workshop of 1496.  He signed a panel (1489) of Christ, the Virgin and saints that is now in the Museo Capitolare.   Works attributed to him include two small panels from San Pietro that are now exhibited there by the Fondazione per l’ Istruzione Agraria, which are probably related to a payment that the monks made to him in 1491-2.  These depict St Benedict (illustrated here) and St Rufinus of Amandola. 




Lattanzio di Nicolò (died after 1527)

From Foligno

Lattanzio di Nicolò trained under his famous father, Nicolò di Liberatore, l’Alunno (above).  This panel (early 16th century) in the Collection of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Perugia, which is attributed to both artists, probably came from from San Bartolomeo di Marano, Foligno.  It depicts the dead Christ with the Virgin and saints.



Giovanni di Pietro, lo Spagna (died 1528)

Probably from Spain, trained in Perugia, moved to Spoleto

Lo Spagna was a pupil of Perugino (above) in Florence in ca. 1492.  He probably joined Perugino’s workshop in Perugia for a short period before moving to Spoleto.  Works in Perugia that are associated with him include:
  1. an altarpiece (ca. 1497) depicting Christ carrying the cross in the Monasterio della Beata Colomba, which is one of the earliest works attributed to him; and

  2. the documented central panel an altarpiece (ca. 1510) of the Nativity from Sant’ Antonio Abate, which is now in the Musée du Louvre.





Antonio Bencivenni (died 1528)

From Mercatello sul Metauro

Antonio Bencivenni was a woodcarver who was based in Perugia  in ca. 1498-1518 and subsequently in Todi.  His surviving work in Perugia includes:

  1. the completion of the choir stalls of San Domenico in 1498;

  2. the main portal (1501) of the Collegio del Cambio; and

  3. the wooden decoration of its chapel (a detail of which is illustrated here) in 1509-16.





Berto di Giovanni (died 1529) 

From Perugia

Berto di Giovanni belonged to the so-called workshop of 1496.  The works by or attributed to him that survive in Perugia include the  St John the Evangelist Altarpiece (ca. 1518) from Santa Giuliana, which is now in the Galleria Nazionale (the main panel of which is illustrated here). 




Rosso Fiorentino (1494-1540)

From Florence

Rosso worked in Rome in 1523-7 and then took refuge with Domenico Alfani in Perugia, after having been caught up in the horror of the sack of Rome.  A design (1528) for an Adoration of the Magi  that he gave to Domenico Alfani is known from a copy in the British Museum.  He soon moved on to Sansepolcro and Città di Castello, and then left Italy for France in 1530.

[Link to Rosso Fiorentino]


Eusebio da San Giorgio (died after 1540)

Probably from Perugia

Eusebio da San Giorgio belonged to the so-called workshop of 1496.  His work in Perugia includes two altarpieces that depict the Adoration of the Magi:

  1. one dated 15o5, from Sant’ Agostino, which is now in the Galleria Nazionale; and

  2. another dated 1508, in San Pietro (illustrated here).




Giannicola di Paolo (ca. 1460-1544)

From Perugia

Giannicola di Paolo probably trained in Perugino’s workshop in Florence.  He is documented as an artist in Perugia from 1493 and served as a Prior here in 1501.  A large number of works by or attributed to him survive in Perugia.   His most prestigious commission was probably the decoration of the Cappella di San Giovanni Battista in the Collegio del Cambio (illustrated here) in 1509-28. 






Mariano di Ser Austerio (died before 1547) 

Probably from Perugia

The earliest known work by Mariano di Ser Austerio is the so-called Pala Belli (1493) from San Domenico, which is now in the Pinacoteca Vaticana (illustrated here).  He also painted the altar frontal (1512) in the Cappella di San Giovanni Battista of the Collegio di Cambio.





Sinibaldo Ibi (died after 1548) 

From Perugia

Sinbaldo Ibi belonged to the so-called workshop of 1496.  [More]

[Temporary link to Sinibaldo Ibi]


Pompeo Cocchi (died after 1552)

From Perugia

The documented St Nicholas Altarpiece (1529), which was commissioned from Pompeo Cocchi for a chapel in the Duomo, is now in the Museo Capitolare (illustrated here). 








Domenico Alfani (died after 1553)

From Perugia

Domenico Alfani came from a noble family and was a close associate of Raphael in the early 16th century.  His many surviving works in Perugia include this altarpiece (1518) from the Sapienza Vecchia, which is now in the Galleria Nazionale. 







Giovanni Battista Caporali (ca. 1476-1554)

From Perugia

Giovanni Battista Caporali, the son of Bartolomeo Caporali seems to have worked under both Perugino and  Pintoricchio in the early 16th century.  The San Girolamo Altarpiece (ca. 1510 - illustrated here), which is now in the Galleria Nazionale, is the earliest work attributed to him as an independent artist.  Most of his later securely documented work in Perugia does not survive.  He was a man of wide interests and intellectual capabilities, and is best remembered for his translation into Italian of the first five of the ten books of “Architettura” by the Roman Vitruvius, which was published in 1536.




Raffaellino del Colle (1490-1556) 

From Colle, Borgo Sansepolcro, moved to Città di Castello in 1527

Raffaellino del Colle probably trained under Giovanni di Pietro, lo Spagna.  He was working in the Vatican in 1520, immediately after the death of Raphael, and might have worked their earlier with Raphael himself.  His stay in Rome lasted until 1524, after which he worked in Umbria, Tuscany and the Marches.  According to Giorgio Vasari, he worked under Lattanzio Pagani (below) on the frescoes of Rocca Paolina in 1543-4.  Two surviving works in Perugia are by or attributed to him:

  1. a panel (1560) of the Holy Family with St John the Baptist from Sant’ Agostino, which is now in the Galleria Nazionale; and

  2. a documented altarpiece (1563) of the Madonna and Child with Saints on the altar of the Oratorio di Sant’ Agostino (illustrated here).


Cristofano Gherardi, il Doceno (1508-56)

From Borgo Sansepolcro

Cristofano Gherardi was close to Giorgio Vasari, albeit that they had different political positions: Vasari was close to the Medici, but Gherardi had strong republican sympathies for which he was exiled from Florence in 1537-54.  He worked under Lattanzio Pagani (below) on the frescoes of Rocca Paolina in 1543-4.  He also  executed this altarpiece (1548-9) with him for Santa Maria del Popolo: it is now in the Galleria Nazionale. 







Tommaso Bernabei, il Papacello (died 1559)

From Cortona

Il Papacello seems to have worked under Giovanni Battista Caporali (above) in the 1520s.  He was active in Perugia after the Salt War (1540), when he secured commissions in Rocca Paolina and in the apartment of the papal legate, Tiberio Crispo.  A detail of a fresco (1547-8) of a scene from the life of Braccio Fortebracci in the Sala della Congregazione Governativa of Palazzo dei Priori (now Room 18 of the Galleria Nazionale), which is attributed to il Papacello, is illustrated here.


Bernardino di Mariotto (died 1566)

From Perugia

Bernardino di Mariotto spent the first part of his career in San Severino in the Marches, before returning to Perugia in 1521.   His surviving works in Perugia include this attributed panel (ca. 1530) of the Mystical Marriage of St Catherine

from Santa Caterina Nuova, which is now in the the Galleria Nazionale.







Giorgio Vasari (1511-74)

From Arezzo, based from 1527 in Florence

Although he is mainly remembered as an art historian, Giorgio Vasari was also a prolific painter and architect who enjoyed the patronage of the Medici of Florence throughout his career.  He describes in his book how he painted three panels for the refectory of the Abbazia di San Pietro in 1566.  These panels, which are now in Cappella del Sacramento, depict:

  1. a miracle of Elisha;

  2. a miracle of St Benedict; and

  3. the feast at Cana (illustrated here). 




Dono Doni (1505-75)

From Assisi

Dono Doni was perhaps the pre-eminent Umbrian-born painter of the late Renaissance.  According to Giorgio Vasari (who knew him), he worked on the  frescoes (1543-4) in Rocca Paolina.  He also painted the fresco (1572) of the Decemviri thanking Pope Julius III for restoring the civic rights of Perugia that survives in situ in the Sala Rossa of Palazzo dei Priori.  The Galleria Nazionale contains three altarpieces by or attributed to him:

  1. two from San Francesco al Prato; and

  2. this fresco (1561) of the Birth of the Virgin from Sant’ Agostino.



Girolamo Danti (1547-80)

From Perugia

Girolamo Danti was the younger brother of two famous Perugians: the Dominican mathematician Ignazio and the sculptor Vincenzo (above).  His career was cut short by his early death.  He is documented in connection with a number of paintings in San Pietro that have not survived, and the frescoes (1574) of scenes from the lives of SS Peter and Paul in the sacristy there can be securely attributed to him.  A panel (ca. 1573) of the Madonna and Child with SS Joseph and Claudius (illustrated here) , which came from San Claudio and is now in the Museo Capitolare, is also attributed to him.


Lattanzio Pagani (died ca. 1582)

From Monterubbiano, in the March of Ancona

Lattanzio Pagani worked mainly for Pope Paul III and for Cardinal Tiberio Crispo, who was the the papal legate in Umbria in 1545-8.  He  led the team that decorated Rocca Paolina in 1543-4.  He executed this altarpiece (1548-9) for Santa Maria del Popolo with Cristofano Gherardi, il Doceno (above): it is now in the Galleria Nazionale.  The documented altarpiece (1547-9) for Santa Margherita, which he executed with the the otherwise unknown Organtino di Mariano, is now in the deposit there.  He seems to have ceased to work as an artist from 1553, when he became Captain of the Militia of the provinces of Umbria and the Marche.





Orazio Alfani (died 1583)

From Perugia

Orazio Alfani trained under his father, Domenico Alfani (above)  His surviving works in Perugia include a number in San Pietro, which in turn include this panel (1553) of the Resurrection of Christ (at the end of the right aisle).








Giovanni Battista Lombardelli (died 1592)

From Montenovo (now called Ostra Vetere) in the March of Ancona

This important artist executed a number of commissions in Perugia.  His last documented works were frescoes (1591-2) in the apse of San Pietro.  These depict:

  1. Christ entrusting the keys of Heaven to St Peter (illustrated here);

  2. Christ before a centurion; and

  3. St Paul kneeling before a vision of Christ.




Nicolò Circignani, il Pomarancio (died 1596)

From Pomarance, near Volterra, based in Rome

The frescoes (1568) in the cupola of the ex-church of the Maestà delle Volte are signed by Nicolò Circignani.  They depict scenes from the Book of Genesis.








Arrigo Fiammingo (1519-97)

From what is now Belgium

Arrigo Fiammingo da Malines (Hendrik van den Broeck, Heinrich Paludanus) was one of very few Flemish artists who established careers in Italy in the 16th century.  Most of his surviving works are in Perugia.  These include this signed panel (1564) of the Adoration of the Magi from San Francesco al Prato, which is now in the Galleria Nazionale. 








Silla Piccinini (died after 1598)

Probably from Perugia

Silla Piccini was active in Perugia from ca. 1580 until his death.  This fresco (1585) in San Manno was apparently originally signed and dated by inscription.  He was documented among the team at work in the apse of San Pietro in 1592, and a number of frescoes there are specifically attributed to him.










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