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Cycle at Orvieto: An Interpretation of the Fears and Hopes of the Comune and People of Orvieto at a Time of Reckoning, unpublished doctoral thesis, Melbourne University, 1992,n. 276 (previously partially edited in L. Fumi, 'Il Duomo di Orvieto e i suoi restauri', Roma, 1891, p.400 and in F. Canuti, 'Il Perugino', Siena, 1931, p.141)

The Operai of the Opera del Duomo meet and discuss the necessity of providing funds to cover the blue pigment and other expences necessary for Perugino's work, Orvieto.

Artist(s): Pietro Perugino
Dates: 1.5.1491
Die prima maii Congregatio superstitum [. . .] Prima proposita Et primo cum fuerit coptimata cappella nova et opus sit emere azurum et facere multas expensas et magister Petrus sit de proximo venturus ad pingendum et non sint parate pecunie nisi vendatur alquid de bonis stabilibus dicte fabrice et aliter non poxit fieri quod provideatur quod sit vendendum pro inveniendis pecuniis. Dictum consultoris Iohannis magistri Cecchi unus ex dictis superstitibus dixit quod camerarius autoritate presentis nomini(?) possit banniri facere silvam della Torre di Bischonte et ospitum del corso et ipsis bamnitis secundum stilum dicte fabrice oblationes factas super dictis bonis reproponat iterum in presente colloquio et tunc deliberabunt quod essent vendendum. Quod quidem dictum octentum fuit per fabas tres del sic in contrarium reperta una alba non obstante.