Location: Archivio dell'Opera del Duomo, Orvieto
Sub-Location: Camerari, 1490-99: 1491
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Type:Institutional account book
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Cycle at Orvieto: An Interpretation of the Fears and Hopes of the Comune and People of Orvieto at a Time of Reckoning, unpublished doctoral thesis, Melbourne University, 1992,n. 279 (previously partially edited in L. Fumi, 'Il Duomo di Orvieto e i suoi restauri', Roma, 1891, p.399 and in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, p.140)
Notes: Fumi (1891, p.397) and Canuti (1931, p.140) date the document to 1490.

Perugino works in the Chapel of San Brizio. The Chamberlain records an expense for ultramarine blue, Orvieto.

Artist(s): Pietro Perugino
Dates: 22.9.1491
Item pro onciis 6 cum dimidia azuri oltramarini pro cappella nova empto per manus venerabilis viri fratris Nicolai Valentini prioris ecclesie Santi Dominici et per magistrum Petrum de Castro Plebis ad rationem ducatorum 4 qualibet oncia in totum -- fl.48 lr.1 sl.16.