Location: Archivio dell'Opera del Duomo, Orvieto
Sub-Location: Riformanze, 1484-1526: 1491
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Type:Institutional record
Language:Latin
Transcription Author: D.E. McLellan
Published: yes
Publication Details: D.E. McLellan, Luca Signorelli’s Last Judgement Fresco Cycle at Orvieto: An Interpretation of the Fears and Hopes of the Comune and People of Orvieto at a Time of Reckoning, unpublished doctoral thesis, Melbourne University, 1992,n. 272 (previously partially edited in L. Fumi, 'Il Duomo di Orvieto e i suoi restauri', Roma, 1891, p.399 and in F. Canuti, 'Il Perugino', Siena, 1931, pp.140-141)

It is decided to sound out Perugino on the agreed decoration of the Cappella Nova, otherwise the work will be entrusted to Antoniazzo Romano, Orvieto.

Artist(s): Pietro Perugino
Dates: 15.1.1491
Die xv ianuarii 1491 [Congregatio superstitum] [. . .] 2a. proposita Secundo cum fuerit alias deliberatum quod cappella nova pingatur et magister Petrus qui promisit pingere dictam cappellam non veniat si videtur providere de alio magistro. [. . .] Dictus consultoris [Johannes Lodovici Beneincasa] [. . .] Item dixit et consuluit super provisione pictoris cappelle nove quod camerarius auctoritate presentis Numeri provideret pro dicto magistro Petro sive pro magistro Antonazzo prout et sicut eidem camerario melius videbitur expedire Quod dictum victum fuit per fabas quinque nigras, nulla alba in contrarium reperta.